| AAIC103 | What Makes It Art? | Open to Art Program BFA1 only. This course may be
open to students at other year levels, and in
other Schools, by Permission of Instructor. What
should a work of art be or do right now? In what
ways has the nature or notion of art changed, and
why? W... |
| AAIC110 | Intro to Photo History | Course open to BFA1 Photo/Media students only.
Basics of a History of Photography. This course
will provide a basic introduction to the history
of photography. By charting out influential
photographers, photographic works, and
technological and cul... |
| AAIC265 | Modern Art History in Review 1 | Open to Art Program BFA2.
Art Program BFA2 students will be pre-enrolled in
this class.
This course may be open to students at other year
levels, and in other Schools, by Permission of
Instructor.
This course will investigate the development of
m... |
| AAIC266 | Modern Art History in Review 2 | Open toArt Program BFA2.
Art Program BFA2 students will be pre-enrolled in
this class.
This course will interrogate the contentious
shifts from high modernism to postmodernity to
the present understanding of an art world
situated within the larger... |
| AAIC275 | Historical Survey of GD A | Open to BFA2 Graphic Design students only.
This course may be open to students at other year
levels, and in other Schools, by Permission of
Instructor.
This slide/lecture course covers the development
of graphic design in the context of the social... |
| AAIC276 | Historical Survey of GD B | Open to BFA2 Graphic Design students only.
This course may be open to students at other year
levels, and in other Schools, by Permission of
Instructor.
This slide/lecture course covers the development
of graphic design in the context of the social... |
| AAIC300 | Visual Semiotics | Open to Art School BFA 3 and BFA4.
This course is designed to introduce basic ideas
of structuralism (and some of its discontents) as
they have been applied to the analysis and
criticism of "the visual". After a brief but
thorough explication of... |
| AAIC310 | History of Photography | The history of photography is studied through
slide lectures, readings and class discussion.
The class traces photographic modernism to its
present crisis. We will consider both the
privileged and mundane uses of photography,
paying special attention... |
| AAIC323 | Practice & Pedagogy: ArtPilots | "Practice and Pedagogy: Art Pilots
Students in this class will have the opportunity
to explore their artmaking practice through
in-class experimentation while gaining a set of
critical skills that lend themselves to teaching.
In this collaborative Ar... |
| AAIC324 | Theaters of Refusal: Exhibition Politics | This seminar takes its title from an exhibition curated by artist and CalArts faculty emeritus Charles Gaines at UC Irvine in 1993, titled "Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism." In his accompanying catalog essay, Gaines situates ma... |
| AAIC419 | Routine Pleasures | Open to Art Program BFA3 and BFA4.
"For the rustle," asserts Roland Barthes, "implies
a community of bodies: in the sounds of the
pleasure which is 'working,' no voice is raised,
guides, or swerves, no voice is constituted; the
rustle is the very s... |
| AAIC421 | Exhibiting Feminisms | This course asks students to develop a
collaborative project that will respond to the
exhibition "Mobilizing Contents: Feminist Art
Program" to be held at REDCAT gallery downtown LA,
from Sept 6 to Dec 20, 2023. This exhibition
activates the CalArts... |
| AAIC442 | The History & Now of Motion Graphics | Motion Graphics (also known as Motion Design) is
everywhere. It
permeates a multitude of spaces and practices
including VR, AR, mixed
reality, UI/UX, apps, platforms, games,
experiences, and increasingly
includes AI. It also includes film and TV titl... |
| AAIC462 | Design Theory I | In the words of a former student, theory is the thinking that advances the discipline. Theory works hand-in-hand with design history, criticism, and practice to support the realization of relevant and meaningful design work that challenges, plays wit... |
| AAIC463 | Design Theory II | Course available by Permission of Instructor
only. BFA4 Graphic Design only.
This course is intended for designers that view
writing and curatorial activity as an essential
part of their design process, and invites
meditation on contemporary and hi... |
| AAIC500 | Visual Semiotics | Open to the Art School only.
This course is designed to introduce basic ideas
of structuralism (and some of its discontents) as
they have been applied to the analysis and
criticism of "the visual". After a brief but
thorough explication of both Pe... |
| AAIC506 | Talent Show | "Talent Show" is co-taught by Sharon Lockhart
(Photo and Media) and Ariel Osterweis (Dance).
This is a course in practice and theory, and
explores topics such as amateurism, aspiration,
and adolescence. Working through questions of
format (stage, tel... |
| AAIC510 | History of Photography | Course available by Permission of Instructor
only.
The history of photography is studied through
slide lectures, readings and class discussion.
The class traces photographic modernism to its
present crisis. We will consider both the
privileged and mu... |
| AAIC523 | Practice & Pedagogy: ArtPilots | "Practice and Pedagogy: Art Pilots
Students in this class will have the opportunity
to explore their artmaking practice through
in-class experimentation while gaining a set of
critical skills that lend themselves to teaching.
In this collaborative Ar... |
| AAIC524 | Theaters of Refusal: Exhibition Politics | This seminar takes its title from an exhibition curated by artist and CalArts faculty emeritus Charles Gaines at UC Irvine in 1993, titled "Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism." In his accompanying catalog essay, Gaines situates ma... |
| AAIC575 | Historical Survey of GD A | Open to MFA Graphic Design students only.
This course may be open to students at other year
levels, and in other Schools, by Permission of
Instructor.
This slide/lecture course covers the development
of graphic design in the context of the social... |
| AAIC576 | Historical Survey of GD B | Open to MFA Graphic Design students only.
This course may be open to students at other year
levels, and in other Schools, by Permission of
Instructor.
This slide/lecture course covers the development
of graphic design in the context of the social... |
| AAIC619 | Routine Pleasures | Open to Art School only.
"For the rustle," asserts Roland Barthes, "implies
a community of bodies: in the sounds of the
pleasure which is 'working,' no voice is raised,
guides, or swerves, no voice is constituted; the
rustle is the very sound of p... |
| AAIC621 | Exhibiting Feminisms | This course asks students to develop a
collaborative project that will respond to the
exhibition "Mobilizing Contents: Feminist Art
Program" to be held at REDCAT gallery downtown LA,
from Sept 6 to Dec 20, 2023. This exhibition
activates the CalArts... |
| AAIC642 | The History & Now of Motion Graphics | Motion Graphics (also known as Motion Design) is
everywhere. It
permeates a multitude of spaces and practices
including VR, AR, mixed
reality, UI/UX, apps, platforms, games,
experiences, and increasingly
includes AI. It also includes film and TV titl... |
| AAIC662 | Design Theory I | In the words of a former student, theory is the thinking that advances the discipline. Theory works hand-in-hand with design history, criticism, and practice to support the realization of relevant and meaningful design work that challenges, plays wit... |
| AAIC663 | Design Theory II | Course available by Permission of Instructor
only. Graphic Design MFA only.
This course is intended for designers that view
writing and curatorial activity as an essential
part of their design process, and invites
meditation on contemporary and his... |
| AART001 | Heavy Metal | Open to Art School only.
This is a 6-week intensive workshop, built around
metalworking fundamentals in order to execute
small-scale objects. M.I.G., T.I.G. and
fabricating basics will be covered. |
| AART008 | Claylab - Wheelthrowing | This five-week intensive workshop will focus on
the basics of wheelthrowing including wedging,
centering, throwing, trimming, firing, and
glazing. During each class students will have
access to a throwing wheel and a class supply of
clay to practice... |
| AART009 | Claylab - Handbuilding | This workshop will be a five week intensive
exploration into constructing sculptures and
objects with clay. Topics covered will include
handbuilding, coiling, slab forming, firing, and
glazing. We will work on one project for the
duration of the cour... |
| AART010 | Art Hazards | This one-day workshop is restricted to and
mandatory for BFA 1 students in the Art and
Photography & Media Programs. The visual arts can
pose significant risks to the health and safety of
artists.This workshop provides an overview of some
of the most... |
| AART011 | Visiting Artist Lectures | This practicum workshop is open to the Institute.
Presentation of work by visiting artists,
designers, and visiting faculty. Attendance is
required at all lectures. Workshop is limited to
50 students. (Please refer to course syllabi
provided by each... |
| AART012 | Welding | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art School BFA students. Students will learn basic welding techniques (proper safety precautions, laying a bead, posture, and the advantages of working with a partner or team) as well as properly cutting and e... |
| AART013 | Drawing | This practicum workshop is open to the Institute.
This course will focus on drawing and the use of
fundamental drawing tools in order to support the
foundations on which to express ideas and concepts
through 2-D Composition. We will discuss the
eleme... |
| AART014 | Sound | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School BFA students. Students will learn about the
implementation of sound in different contexts such
as installation and performance, as well as
examine the history of sound in a range of
trajectories suc... |
| AART016 | Sculpture | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School BFA students. Using the framework of a
studio-based course, Sculpture provides BFA
students the opportunity to study technical and
conceptual processes through hands-on experience.
Understanding the... |
| AART017 | Video in the Expanded Field | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School Art and Photo/Media BFA students. This
workshop will focus on video documentation of
performance art, participatory projects, and
multi-media performance installations. Different
instructors will ap... |
| AART018 | Performance | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School BFA students. Using the framework of a
studio-based course, Performance focuses on themes
of participation, audience, gesture, authorship,
collaboration. Different instructors may approach
the metho... |
| AART019 | Mold-Making | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School BFA students.This practicum workshop
provides students the opportunity to study
technical processes of moldmaking through
developing a final project. Molds offer the
possibility of a deeper understa... |
| AART020 | Video | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School BFA students. Using the framework of a
studio-based course, Video provides BFA students
the opportunity to study technical and conceptual
processes through hands-on experience. Video is a
time-based... |
| AART021 | Ceramics | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School BFA students.Using the framework of a
studio-based course, Ceramics provides BFA
students the opportunity to study technical and
conceptual processes through hands on experience.
Ceramics offer an e... |
| AART022 | Painting: Painting Supports | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School BFA students.Using the framework of a
studio-based course, Painting provides BFA
students the opportunity to study technical and
conceptual processes through hands on experience.
Different instructo... |
| AART023 | Printmaking: Silkscreen | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art School BFA students.
This class will introduce students to alternative and advanced silk-screening techniques through hands-on workshops. Students will learn how to prepare files for CMYK silk-screening u... |
| AART025 | Digital Skills | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School BFA students.Using the framework of a
studio-based course, Digital Skills provides BFA
students the opportunity to study technical and
conceptual processes through hands on experience.
Hands-on, con... |
| AART026 | Textile Art | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School BFA students. Textiles are two-dimensional
surfaces that can be cut and combined in different
ways to become three dimensional forms. Fabric has
been used to create shelters (tents), household
objec... |
| AART028 | Installation: Site and Install | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School BFA students.This practicum workshop
provides students the opportunity to study
conceptual processes of Installation Art through
developing a final project. Different instructors
may approach the me... |
| AART029 | Art Writing | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School BFA students.Students will be introduced to
a wide variety of source material which deals in
varying ways with the issues in writing and the
relationships between art and language. Different
instruc... |
| AART030 | Painting: Color | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School BFA students. This is a hands-on practical
workshop where students will focus on
communicating with color. The workshop will
consider the physical properties of color and how
color presents itself a... |
| AART032 | Basket Weaving | No Description Set |
| AART033 | Printmaking: Collagraphy | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School BFA students. The collagraph method of
printmaking allows the artist to make impressions
based on manipulated found materials. Printing
blocks are made by adhering found materials to
wood, thereby c... |
| AART036 | Performance: Techniques | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School BFA students. In this hands-on workshop,
students will learn to work collaboratively on
developing and producing a performance work or
very short video. Different instructors may
approach the method... |
| AART039 | Zine Culture & Self Publishing | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School BFA students. This workshop opens up the
world of zine culture and the power of zines to
articulate experience and build community.
Self-publishing on-line and in print offers
multiple possibilities... |
| AART042 | Fabric and Textiles | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School BFA students. This multidisciplinary
workshop will consider textiles and fabrics as raw
materials for art making. Different instructors
will approach the method and concept of Fabric and
Textiles di... |
| AART046 | Relief Printmaking | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School BFA students. Students will learn
press-less Relief Printmaking methods and pattern
and motif design. Through hands-on exercises,
students will learn to design, transfer, carve,
register, print, and... |
| AART048 | LA's Artist-Run Spaces | What makes an artist-run space different from
another gallery or non-profit organization?
Artist-run spaces are founded by and driven by the
ideas and dreams of artists, though they often
transform over time. Through a series of case
studies, this co... |
| AART049 | The Body in 360- Exploring the Spatial | Using our bodies and surrounding environments, we
will explore the physical and virtual
possibilities of VR filmmaking with the Insta 360
One x2 VR camera. We will research the duality of
physical and virtual world building by looking at
the formal r... |
| AART050 | Experiments in Art Writing | Whether you are an artist working on their statement, making a book, writing for a contemporary art publication, documenting their process, or simply looking to artist books and writings for inspiration, this course is for you. We will study works by... |
| AART101 | Foundation Seminar | BFA1 Art Program students will be pre-enrolled in
this class, along with What Makes it
Art(AAIC-103).
In order to have a better understanding of the
work you make and how that work interacts with
culture, it is important to begin to grapple with
th... |
| AART102 | Foundation B | BFA1 Art Program students will be pre-enrolled in
this class.
In order to have a better understanding of the
work you make and how that work interacts with
culture, it is important to begin to grapple with
the relationship between your art and art... |
| AART104 | Foundation Studio | Foundation Studio is intended to provide a
hands-on opportunity for students to understand
and engage with a variety of approaches to studio
practice. Students will be introduced to the
program's labs, including the Supershop, the
print and digital m... |
| AART109 | Foundation in Two Dimensions | Foundation in Two Dimensions: Painting, Drawing, and More is a studio-based course intended as an introduction to painting, drawing, collage, and other two-dimensional approaches and is intended to complement the Art Foundation curriculum. This cours... |
| AART110 | Foundation: Making Visible | This studio-based class complements the Art Foundation curriculum and is structured on class demos designed to introduce basic and advanced painting and drawing techniques. Exploring the materials and methods shown, hands-on working sessions flow dir... |
| AART199 | Independent Study | Permission of Instructor only.
Independent Study is a semester-long agreement
developed between a student and a faculty member
to discuss ongoing work, a particular project, or
a course of study.
This agreement, including frequency of meetings... |
| AART201 | Post Foundation Sem: What's Goin' On? | Post Foundation Seminar/Critique: What's Goin'
On?
This required course invites students to
articulate and develop relationships between
theory and practice.
Seminar-style reading discussions will be
conducted, alternating with individual
present... |
| AART203 | Post-Foundation Visiting Artist | BFA2 Art Program students will be pre-enrolled in
this class.
This required course is in tandem with the
Visiting Artist's Lecture Series.
BFA 2 Art Program students are expected to attend
the weekly lectures and to participate in this
weekly se... |
| AART205 | Studio Workshop Series | The Studio Workshop Series is comprised of short,
but intensive discipline-specific studio-based
workshops that provide BFA students the
opportunity to learn both technically and
conceptually through hands-on experience.
Each session is taught by d... |
| AART205D | Molto Brutto: Brutalist Furniture | So, you've taken the Super Shop's
Orientation, now
what? Looking to fill the vacuum with some
tangible building skills? This 6-week technical
workshop class might be for you! We will be using
Enzo Mari's wooden furniture design classic
textbook: 'Aut... |
| AART205E | Silkscreen Workshop | Silkscreen workshop is for incoming students
within the Art School.
This workshop is intensive on learning how to
approach silkscreening. We will focus on
registration, paper, and ink additives.
There is a $50 course fee, which provides most
materi... |
| AART205F | Relief Printing Workshop | This workshop is for incoming students within the
School of Art. The workshop is an intensive on
learning how to approach relief printing using
type high linoleum blocks. Vandercook Proof Press
will be utilized for the printing process. We will
focus... |
| AART205G | Etching Workshop | This workshop is for incoming students within the
School of Art. The workshop is intensive on
learning how to approach intaglio printing using
copper metal. Takach Press will be utilized for
the printing process. We will explore additive
processes li... |
| AART205H | Monotype Workshop | Known as the most painterly process in print. We will be exploring the "one off" through the monotype process. The Takach press will be utilized. Exploring different scopes through additive and subtractive methods. Utilizing found materials, stencil... |
| AART210 | Studio Series | The Studio Series is comprised of
discipline-specific studio-based courses that
provide BFA students the opportunity to learn
both technically and conceptually through
hands-on experience.
Each session is taught by different faculty.
Multiple sessi... |
| AART210A | Drawing | Open to BFA1 and BFA2 Art Program students only.
Open to other students by Permission of
Instructor only.
The Studio Series comprises
discipline-specific studio-based courses that
provide BFA students the opportunity to learn both
technically and co... |
| AART210B | Painting | Open to BFA1 and BFA2 Art Program students only.
Open to other students by Permission of
Instructor only.
The Studio Series comprises
discipline-specific studio-based courses that
provide BFA students the opportunity to learn both
technically and co... |
| AART210C | Sculpture | Open to BFA1 and BFA2 Art Program students only.
Open to other students by Permission of
Instructor only.
The Studio Series comprises
discipline-specific studio-based courses that
provide BFA students the opportunity to learn both
technically and co... |
| AART210D | Print & Digital Media | Open to BFA1 and BFA2 Art Program students only.
Open to other students by Permission of
Instructor only.
The Studio Series comprises
discipline-specific studio-based courses that
provide BFA students the opportunity to learn both
technically and co... |
| AART210E | Video | Open to BFA1 and BFA2 Art Program students only.
Open to other students by Permission of
Instructor only.
The Studio Series comprises
discipline-specific studio-based courses that
provide BFA students the opportunity to learn both
technically and co... |
| AART210F | Social Practice | Open to BFA1 and BFA2 Art Program students only.
Open to BFA3 and BFA4 Art Program students by
Permission of Instructor.
The Studio Series is comprised of
discipline-specific studio-based courses that
provide BFA students the opportunity to learn
bo... |
| AART210G | Ceramics | Open to BFA1 and BFA2 Art Program students only.
Open to other students by Permission of
Instructor only.
The Studio Series comprises
discipline-specific studio-based courses that
provide BFA students the opportunity to learn both
technically and co... |
| AART210J | Writing | Open to BFA1 and BFA2 Art Program students only.
Open to other students by Permission of
Instructor only.
The Studio Series comprises
discipline-specific studio-based courses that
provide BFA students the opportunity to learn both
technically and co... |
| AART210K | Time Based Studio: Copies & Fakes | Open to BFA1 and BFA2 Art Program students only.
Open to other students by Permission of
Instructor only.
The Studio Series comprises
discipline-specific studio-based courses that
provide BFA students the opportunity to learn both
technically and co... |
| AART210L | Sound in Art | Open to BFA1 and BFA2 Art Program students only.
Open to other students by Permission of
Instructor only.
The Studio Series comprises
discipline-specific studio-based courses that
provide BFA students the opportunity to learn both
technically and co... |
| AART210N | Sculpture for Staying Alive | What does it mean to have the basic necessities of
life? Are food, water, and shelter enough? Do we
not need human interaction, culture, and art? We
will engage basic survival strategies, from
gleaning to codeswitching, to address questions of
enviro... |
| AART210P | Intensive Painting Workshop | Open to Art School BFAs. An advanced painting
class. Experimentation is encouraged. Involves
class critiques, readings, image presentations,
field trips, and in class studio work. |
| AART210T | Time Based Studio: Making Scenes | This is a production studio course for artists on creating/directing narrative scenes/vignettes. This is an intro to narrative for camera. Students will plan, structure, shoot and edit two given dramatic scenes with the goal to understand and potenti... |
| AART210U | Drawing, a Verb | Drawing, a Verb is a gathering space for students who love to draw. We will meet weekly for improvisational drawing that is followed by an open critique of drawings created in class. During each session, students will be provided with drawing materia... |
| AART210V | a sewing/pattern-making studio class | Feminist Quilting Bee is a sewing/pattern-making studio class that explores how artists create new artworks while gossiping, warning, and informing one another as a form of care. Deeply informed by feminist essays such as Kwame Holme's "What's The Te... |
| AART211 | Drawing | Open to BFA1 and BFA2 Art Program students only.
Open to BFA3 and BFA4 Art Program students by
Permission of Instructor.
The Studio Series is comprised of
discipline-specific studio-based courses that
provide BFA students the opportunity to learn
bo... |
| AART214 | Print & Digital Media | Open to BFA1 and BFA2 Art Program students only.
Open to BFA3 and BFA4 Art Program students by
Permission of Instructor.
The Studio Series is comprised of
discipline-specific studio-based courses that
provide BFA students the opportunity to learn
bo... |
| AART295 | BFA Critique | This is a critique course intended for BFAs.
Working in a group dynamic, students will gain
the ability to better articulate their work and
the work of their peers. Online enrollment is
open to BFA students in the Program in Art in
their 2nd, 3rd, or... |
| AART299 | Independent Study | Permission of Instructor only.
Independent Study is a semester-long agreement
developed between a student and a faculty member
to discuss ongoing work, a particular project, or
a course of study.
This agreement, including frequency of meetings... |
| AART300A | Open Critique | Open to Art School only. This course
may be open to students at other year levels, and
in other Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
Open Critique is a venue for students to
critically examine their work in the context of a
peer dialogue guided by t... |
| AART300H | Open Painting Critique | This is a standard painting critique, open to
virtually anyone with the painting practice.
Although not a studio class, technique will be
discussed when necessary; one on one meetings may
take place regarding technique when called for or
requested.... |
| AART300J | Snapshots | This class will be a laboratory of the quotidien.
Everyday crumbs swept together hastily. Small
irresolute gestures, form on the move. Every
session; a reading, a screening, and some words
that deal with dailiness, alienation, time,
process, history,... |
| AART300K | Diving Deep: Sculptural Critique | This sculptural crit focuses on the development of
each student's personal
artistic voice. The goal is to strengthen
student's understanding of their own
sculptural work and how it relates to the broad
range of techniques, forms
and ideas that compri... |
| AART300L | Queertiques | Queertiques is an interdisciplinary critique course and seminar open to upper-level undergrad and grad students within the School of Art, and from other Schools with instructor permission. Queertiques or Queer Critiques embraces bell hooks and Tim De... |
| AART300M | Sensing Crit: Do U Love What U Feel? | Sensing Crit: Do U Love What U Feel? is a critique course that provides an opportunity to share work for critical feedback up to three times over the course of the semester. This course offers multiple in-depth critique approaches, including somatic,... |
| AART310C | KE Sculpture: Existing in Possibility | This kinetic sculpture course is about making
things that work and going deep into our problem
solving minds. We will aim to demystify and employ
analog electronics and mechanisms, study organic
and engineered systems and energies, and explore
the ma... |
| AART310T | Clay and Body Memory | This course will focus on the physical and psychic
relationships between the ceramic object and the
human body as well as clay's ability to capture
and make permanent the otherwise transitory nature
of a gesture. We will generate work that
necessita... |
| AART310U | Rituals in Practice | Rituals in Practice: Disciplines of Energetic This
course explores definitions of presence,
action, and esoteric belief to debate "the
energetic" potential in artworks. We will speak
about the space in between an object and viewer,
examining a span o... |
| AART310Y | Mixing and Modifying Ceramic Glazes | This independent study group will focus on
researching and developing ceramic glazes from raw
chemicals.
Students will choose a type of glaze and/or color
to develop throughout the semester beginning with
published
glaze recipes and modifying those r... |
| AART310Z | Next Level Clay | This course will explore advanced methods for the
production of clay / ceramic sculpture and design
objects. Students will work on projects
independently with weekly group meetings for
progress reports of in-process work.
Individualized one-on-one... |
| AART311B | The 360° Narrative | This class will explore the idea of multiple
narratives being told at once, while all holding
their own identity and equal ground, but yet
becoming one. Students will contemplate how each
narrative element relates to one another, both in
harmony and... |
| AART311C | Clay, Light and Shadow | This course will cover the processes for
constructing three dimensional sculptures and
objects in clay while exploring the material and
metaphorical relationships between light and
shadow. Through exercises in experimentation, we
will work with intui... |
| AART311E | Sound Affects - Sound Art | This course will include a series of
lectures, workshops, and assignments with emphasis
on experimentation and pre-production strategies
and techniques for capturing, creating,
reproducing, and manipulating sound and audio
materials in conventio... |
| AART311F | Building&Breaking Into & As Practice | "First forget inspiration. Habit is more
dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're
inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and
polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is
persistence in practice." Octavia Butler,
Bloodchild and Other... |
| AART311G | Making Bodies | Making Bodies is a materially-driven sculpture
studio course open to intermediate and upper-level
undergraduate and graduate students that aims to
generate alternative ways of viewing and
understanding bodies. Students will manipulate
materials to re... |
| AART311H | Rip It Up and Start Again | During this class we will investigate the
significance of collecting materials relevant to
each of our practices. We will explore the
possibilities for arranging those materials into
various forms, particularly collage. How can a
collage reveal one's... |
| AART311J | Wood Sculpture | Engaging both the pragmatic and the imaginative,
this sculpture course explores a singular material
that lends itself to a variety of methodologies,
processes, and associations. Throughout human
history wood has lent its strength to
functionality and... |
| AART311M | Sculpture: Reclaiming the Material World | Reappropriating objects, from the insignificant to the monumental! This sculpture course connects the present to the past; examining various contemporary art practices as well as functional, craft based processes from around the world. Students will... |
| AART311N | Music To Paint To | Throughout this studio class, we'll attempt to deconstruct the relationship between listening to music and painting as practice. Visual artists have always been influenced by music. Some show the specific influences of music in their work, like Corit... |
| AART311P | Wheelthrowing, Attention, and Rest | Making art at human scale. Internalizing the skills and process of wheelthrowing while disentangling from externalized attention economies and reprioritizing intra-and inter- personal connections. More simply; each week a group of students will meet... |
| AART320 | Open Seminar Series | Open Seminar is a series of seminars of special
topics chosen by the instructor.
Reading, discussion, assigned projects and/or
field trips may be used to invite students to
examine their work in the context of a focused
dialogue. In order for stude... |
| AART320H | Is It Really Working | Work, Unwork, Postwork and Labor in Capitalist
Realities
When we speak of work, we speak of a broad social
and material construct, crucial in shaping
experiences of reality and contouring the
production of subjectivity. This understanding is
rooted... |
| AART320S | Materiality of Gesture | Open to BFA3 and BFA4 students in the Art
Program.
Performance as an artistic (anti)disciplinary
field is often historisized as emerging from a
will towards immateriality, grappling with art's
commodity status and situating its practice at the
thres... |
| AART320T | History, Exper. & Aesthetic Implications | Open to BFA3 and BFA4 students in the Art
Program.
Postcolonial Theory: History, Experience and
Aesthetic Implications
Postcolonial theory (also referred to as
anti-colonial theory) emerged as an activist and
cultural production in reaction to the... |
| AART320W | Seminar: Art as Resistance | Open to BFA 3 & 4 students in the Art
Program.
Resistance comes in all forms.this course will
delve into resistance in the form of art and
introduce community based activism as a crucial
point of origin for such a type of resistance. It
will review... |
| AART321 | Open Seminar Series | Open Seminar is a series of seminars of special
topics chosen by the instructor.
Reading, discussion, assigned projects and/or
field trips may be used to invite students to
examine their work in the context of a focused
dialogue. In order for stude... |
| AART321A | Love Making | This course will explore love as a source of
guidance and nurture for the artist who makes. It
will begin with the proposition that love is a
philosophy with the capacity to transform stagnant
and dire social and material realities, while also
undert... |
| AART321B | Illusions of Control | "Tech Nightmares, Illusions of Control" is a
hybrid seminar + practice course conceived as a
critical survey on different positions that
articulate rejection, skepticism and resistance to
the current developments of information
technology. Throughout... |
| AART321C | Propaganda for Thinking | "Propaganda that stimulates thinking, in no matter
what field, is useful to the cause of the
oppressed.
Such propaganda is very much needed. Under
governments which serve to promote exploitation,
thought is considered base." - Bertolt Brecht
This co... |
| AART321D | Welcome to Migranthood! | Welcome to Migranthood!
Speaking at a conference on identity in 1987,
Stuart Hall said, "My own sense of identity has
always depended on the fact of being a migrant..
[Now] I find myself centered at last. Now that in
the postmodern age you all feel... |
| AART321F | Friends Playing | Friends Playing is a studio-seminar course in
which we will look at friendship and play as two
necessary components of a future yet to be
imagined or narrativized. Wherever we look we see
private property and individuals navigating the
world alone... |
| AART321G | Foodways in Sculpture and Social Practic | In Foodways we will work on creating sculptures
and experiences that center food and other
materials that are biological. We will think
through a sequence of projects called dinner
parties, where the totality of the experience will
be considered. If... |
| AART321K | The Entanglement of Matter and Meaning | This is a class about ghosts. In this course, we delve into the haunting legacies of forced removals and violent dispossession, exploring how their affectivity and materiality persist through time in archives and historical records that are filled wi... |
| AART356 | Finite and Infinite Games | "There are at least two kinds of games. One could
be called finite, the other infinite. A finite
game is played for the purpose of winning, an
infinite game for the purpose of continuing the
play."
In this advanced seminar we'll use James Carse's
n... |
| AART357 | A Short Correspondence Course: Creating | This class will be a collaboration across three
art schools, CalArts, HDK Hamburg, and KABK The
Hague, and will an attempt to create community
through both digital and material means, framed
through a reconsideration of Mail Art. Mail Art
flourished... |
| AART358 | ABSENT | This class will consider absence (also known as
"negative space") as content and a composition
tool for creating installations, sculptures, and
conceptual art works. This class focuses on the
presence of absence, and will consider the
political and c... |
| AART360 | Sculpture Seminar: Sustainability | Join me in inquiry and research of the following:
What does a sculptural practice looks like when it
is sustainable for our ecosystem, finance, and
mental health? How do we reframe constraints and
policing as possibilities and liberation?
Operating o... |
| AART361 | Text on the Run | This seminar/practice course is a hands-on
observation on how our art experiments, mediums
and subjects are altered by the language of
persecution. Can text be the starting point to
split, cut, and interfere our interdisciplinary
practices? Through a... |
| AART362 | Deviant Objects & Performance | This course is a studio-seminar course for
advanced undergraduate and graduate students that
focuses on intersections of performance art and
sculpture, centering relationships between deviant
materiality, bodies, and the performance of
objecthood. St... |
| AART363 | Art Perception and Collective Connection | Through engaging in various creative forms,
including drawing, photography, performance, video
production, and sonic exploration, students will
critically analyze and reimagine the ancient past,
challenge cultural norms, and cultivate a sense of
comm... |
| AART364 | Southern California Coast Stories | During this class, we will explore the historical, political, biological and geological dynamics that have shaped the coast of Southern California. Committed to a site specific model, this pedagogical approach will focus on indigenous approaches and... |
| AART365 | Inquiry at Heart | Do you question everything? Do you have a question for an answer?
Let's talk about processes, and expand our methodologies of cyclical discovery.
Let's question, conduct research, form hypotheses, create experiments, annotate data analysis, get to a... |
| AART399 | Independent Study | Permission of Instructor only.
Independent Study is a semester-long agreement
developed between a student and a faculty member
to discuss ongoing work, a particular project, or
a course of study.
This agreement, including frequency of meetings... |
| AART406 | Getting to Third | Open to Art School BFA3 and BFA4.
This course may be open to students at other year
levels, and in other Schools, by Permission of
Instructor.
This is a seminar/studio class in which we will
journey in an (idiosyncratic) history of thought
and art... |
| AART407 | Keeping It Real | Open to Art School BFA3 and BFA4.
This course may be open to students at other year
levels, and in other Schools, by Permission of
Instructor.
This course will bring students into an
up-to-date conversation about "source materials"
that influence... |
| AART411 | Critique | Each student will present their work to the class
at least once during the semester. The student
presenting work can determine some of the
parameters for her/his critique. S/he may either
opt to introduce the work before the discussion
begins or s/h... |
| AART418 | Montage & Memory | This course will examine historical
and contemporary use of montage effects in still
photography, film, video, painting, collage,
assemblage, performance, and installation art.
Slide lectures, videos, and films will be
reviewed, as well assigned rea... |
| AART422 | The Contemporary Exhibition | Open to Art School BFA3 and BFA4.
This course may be open to students at other year
levels, and in other Schools, by Permission of
Instructor.
This course will consider the exhibition as a/the
primary context for defining the objectives and
parame... |
| AART424 | Expansive Fields: The Ramble | Open to Art School only.
This course may be open to students at other year
levels, and in other Schools, by Permission of
Instructor.
Students enrolling in this course must be in the
Santa Clarita or greater Los Angeles area. During
this course, w... |
| AART426 | Writing Workshop | Art School only.
Critical discussion of students' writing.
Presentations are e-mailed to the group early in
the week.
Two presentations are considered and critiqued
each session. |
| AART427 | People's Theory | Co-taught by John Mandel and Michael Fink, Music
School faculty. An interdisciplinary seminar for
Art School students and composers and performers
in the Music School, it includes participants from
other disciplines as well. This critique
aims to cra... |
| AART435 | Articulation | Open to Art School BFA3 or BFA4.
This class is a forum for students to articulate
their art practices through generative thinking,
and also to examine the "articular" space both
within and between language and art. |
| AART437 | Work in Context | Open to Art Program and Photography & Media
Program BFA3 and BFA4.
Artworks are understood within the terms of the
histories and traditions of the various media in
play, and also as they intersect with the larger
context of contemporary culture. I... |
| AART444 | Tuff Luxe Crit | "Tuff Luxe Crit" is a critique class for the
serious artist who is ready for an extreme
close-up. That is, this course offers a
concrete/exploratory, personal/political,
historical/philosophical analysis of each
student's chosen body of work done whi... |
| AART446 | Collisions Explain Everything | Open to Art School BFA4.
This course may be open to students at other year
levels, and in other Schools, by Permission of
Instructor.
"[The] body itself...is both biological and
psychical. This understanding of the body as a
hinge or threshold b... |
| AART448 | Ask Shirley | BFA seminar style class with topics chosen by
enrolled students that are relevant to their own
practices.
As young artists learn of the many approaches or
models they may choose to base their practices
on, it is both liberating and intimidating at... |
| AART453 | Time Based Studio: Video Apocalypse | Time Based Studio: Video Apocalypse
This is a comprehensive class on video practice
that includes a historical survey and technical
instruction. The student will learn to operate
the school of art's production and exhibition
equipment including ligh... |
| AART462 | The Lost River and the Missing Lake | Lost River/ Missing Lake: The Politics of Water in
Los Angeles. This class will explore specific ways
to transform real-world research into multi-form
artworks. The research at the core of the class
will focus on the problems of water scarcity in
Los... |
| AART464 | Sound and Video in Space | Sound and Video in Space: Where the Quotidian
Meets the Marvelous
3D sound and video installation will be studied,
explored, and executed in class. Students will be
asked to build their own installations both
collaboratively with other students and... |
| AART474 | Pauline Oliveros for Artists | This course is based on the theory and practice of composer, performer, and educator Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016). Her influential "Sonic Meditations" implicate both the physical body and the social body, are rooted in an intensive engagement with th... |
| AART482 | The End After-Catastrophe in Theory, Art | The End After - Catastrophe in theory and poetics
of cinema and video art Not simply a survey of
cinematic cautionary apocalyptic parables: this is
a seminar/crit on time and on the function of
ending/continuity in our art and theory. The class
is al... |
| AART483 | "no Mastery, No Flaky" - a Crit Class | We don't make art alone - even though we are or
often feel, alone in our thoughts, studios, ideas,
or visions. This group course considers how we
might reconsider notions of mutuality,
collaboration, and collegiality alongside our art
making.
Expe... |
| AART484 | The Ephemeral and Letting Go | Both a survey of fleeting work from contemporary
art history as well as an exploration of
ephemerality's expressive potential in our own
studio practice. Performance, sound, social
sculpture, impermanent materials and their
afterimage will all be inv... |
| AART485 | Queer Archives: Art&Advocacy | From the VISUAL AIDS website: "Visual AIDS
utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue,
supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy,
because AIDS is not over."
We will focus on art, artists and practices in
the subject of archives, advo... |
| AART486 | The Multiform Elsewhere | While Western thought has a long tradition of
absolutes-isolating self from environment, active
from passive, cause from effect, there have always
been strands of thought that complicate, refuse,
or upend this model, and focus instead on the
intersub... |
| AART487 | Performing Problems | This hybrid practice and seminar course,
Performing Problems, explores and theorizes
performance (live, on-video, online) utilizing the
provocation of a "problem". For this course,
"problems" might include but are not restricted to
the generosity of... |
| AART488 | EastofBorneo: Research, Writing, Editing | This is a studio course for students interested in research, writing, and editing. Centered on the ongoing work of EastofBorneo, the online magazine of contemporary art published by the Art School, the class will work in concert with the editorial te... |
| AART489 | Autotelia: Writing Workshop for Artists | This semester long course is a workshop in which students will have the opportunity to garner feedback about original writing, written in response to class prompts. The focus of our reading and writing will be on constraint-based writing, however loo... |
| AART497 | BFA 4 Independent Studio | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School BFA students. Students will work on
independent projects in their studios with the
goal of realizing their mid-residency and final
exhibitions. Productive conversations with peers
and faculty will c... |
| AART499 | Independent Study | Permission of Instructor only.
Independent Study is a semester-long agreement
developed between a student and a faculty member
to discuss ongoing work, a particular project, or
a course of study.
This agreement, including frequency of meetings... |
| AART500 | Open Critique Series | Open Critique is a venue for students to examine
their work critically in the context of a peer
dialogue guided by the instructor. In order for
students to take advantage of the diversity of
approaches offered by our regular and visiting
faculty, thi... |
| AART500A | Open Critique | Open to Art School only. This course
may be open to students at other year levels, and
in other Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
Open Critique is a venue for students to examine
their work critically in the context of a peer
dialogue guided by... |
| AART500C | Open Critique | In this class we will explore the tension between
the artwork itself and what surrounds it, such as
the artist's persona, history, context,
discourse, the internet and the circulation of
the materials that contribute to its meaning.
Each critique wi... |
| AART500H | Open Painting Critique | This is a standard painting critique, open to
virtually anyone with the painting practice.
Although not a studio class, technique will be
discussed when necessary; one on one meetings may
take place regarding technique when called for or
requested.... |
| AART500J | Snapshots | This class will be a laboratory of the quotidien.
Everyday crumbs swept together hastily. Small
irresolute gestures, form on the move. Every
session; a reading, a screening, and some words
that deal with dailiness, alienation, time,
process, history,... |
| AART500K | Diving Deep: Sculptural Critique | This sculptural crit focuses on the development of
each student's personal
artistic voice. The goal is to strengthen
student's understanding of their own
sculptural work and how it relates to the broad
range of techniques, forms
and ideas that compri... |
| AART500L | Queertiques | Queertiques is an interdisciplinary critique
course and seminar open to upper-level undergrad
and grad students within the School of Art, and
from other Schools with instructor permission.
Queertiques or Queer Critiques embraces bell hooks
and Tim De... |
| AART500M | Sensing Crit: Do U Love What U Feel? | Sensing Crit: Do U Love What U Feel? is a critique course that provides an opportunity to share work for critical feedback up to three times over the course of the semester. This course offers multiple in-depth critique approaches, including somatic,... |
| AART510 | Open Studio Series | Open Studio is comprised of descipline-specific
studio-based courses that provide MFA and BFA
students the opportunity to learn both
technically and conceptually through hands-on
experience.
In order for students to take advantage of the
diversity o... |
| AART510C | KE Sculpture: Existing in Possibility | This kinetic sculpture course is about making
things that work and going deep into our problem
solving minds. We will aim to demystify and employ
analog electronics and mechanisms, study organic
and engineered systems and energies, and explore
the ma... |
| AART510T | Clay and Body Memory | This course will focus on the physical and psychic
relationships between the ceramic object and the
human body as well as clay's ability to capture
and make permanent the otherwise transitory nature
of a gesture. We will generate work that
necessita... |
| AART510U | Rituals in Practice | Rituals in Practice: Disciplines of Energetic This
course explores definitions of presence,
action, and esoteric belief to debate "the
energetic" potential in artworks. We will speak
about the space in between an object and viewer,
examining a span o... |
| AART510Y | Mixing and Modifying Ceramic Glazes | This independent study group will focus on
researching and developing ceramic glazes from raw
chemicals.
Students will choose a type of glaze and/or color
to develop throughout the semester beginning with
published
glaze recipes and modifying those r... |
| AART510Z | Next Level Clay | This course will explore advanced methods for the
production of clay / ceramic sculpture and design
objects. Students will work on projects
independently with weekly group meetings for
progress reports of in-process work.
Individualized one-on-one... |
| AART511B | The 360° Narrative | This class will explore the idea of multiple
narratives being told at once, while all holding
their own identity and equal ground, but yet
becoming one. Students will contemplate how each
narrative element relates to one another, both in
harmony and... |
| AART511C | Clay, Light and Shadow | This course will cover the processes for
constructing three dimensional sculptures and
objects in clay while exploring the material and
metaphorical relationships between light and
shadow. Through exercises in experimentation, we
will work with intui... |
| AART511E | Sound Affects - Sound Art | This course will include a series of
lectures, workshops, and assignments with emphasis
on experimentation and pre-production strategies
and techniques for capturing, creating,
reproducing, and manipulating sound and audio
materials in conventio... |
| AART511F | Building&Breaking Into & As Practice | "First forget inspiration. Habit is more
dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're
inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and
polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is
persistence in practice." Octavia Butler,
Bloodchild and Other... |
| AART511G | Making Bodies | Making Bodies is a materially-driven sculpture
studio course open to intermediate and upper-level
undergraduate and graduate students that aims to
generate alternative ways of viewing and
understanding bodies. Students will manipulate
materials to re... |
| AART511H | Rip It Up and Start Again | During this class we will investigate the
significance of collecting materials relevant to
each of our practices. We will explore the
possibilities for arranging those materials into
various forms, particularly collage. How can a
collage reveal one's... |
| AART511J | Wood Sculpture | Engaging both the pragmatic and the imaginative,
this sculpture course explores a singular material
that lends itself to a variety of methodologies,
processes, and associations. Throughout human
history wood has lent its strength to
functionality and... |
| AART511M | Sculpture: Reclaiming the Material World | Reappropriating objects, from the insignificant to the monumental! This sculpture course connects the present to the past; examining various contemporary art practices as well as functional, craft based processes from around the world. Students will... |
| AART511N | Music To Paint To | Throughout this studio class, we'll attempt to deconstruct the relationship between listening to music and painting as practice. Visual artists have always been influenced by music. Some show the specific influences of music in their work, like Corit... |
| AART511P | Wheelthrowing, Attention, and Rest | Making art at human scale. Internalizing the skills and process of wheelthrowing while disentangling from externalized attention economies and reprioritizing intra- and inter- personal connections. More simply; each week a group of nine people will m... |
| AART520 | Open Seminar Series | Open Seminar is a series of seminars of special
topics chosen by the instructor. Reading,
discussion, assigned projects and/or field trips
may be used to invite students to examine their
work in the context of a focused dialogue. In
order for student... |
| AART520H | Is It Really Working | Work, Unwork, Postwork and Labor in Capitalist
Realities
When we speak of work, we speak of a broad social
and material construct, crucial in shaping
experiences of reality and contouring the
production of subjectivity. This understanding is
rooted... |
| AART520S | Materiality of Gesture | Performance as an artistic (anti)disciplinary
field is often historisized as emerging from a
will towards immateriality, grappling with art's
commodity status and situating its practice at the
threshold between theatricality and objecthood
with the b... |
| AART520T | History, Exper. & Aesthetic Implications | Postcolonial Theory: History, Experience and
Aesthetic Implications
Postcolonial theory (also referred to as
anti-colonial theory) emerged as an activist and
cultural production in reaction to the violent
colonization processes carried out by Europe... |
| AART520W | Seminar: Art as Resistance | Resistance comes in all forms...this course will
delve into resistance in the form of art and
introduce community based activism as a crucial
point of origin for such a type of resistance. It
will review a variety of historical and
contemporary works... |
| AART521A | Love Making | This course will explore love as a source of
guidance and nurture for the artist who makes. It
will begin with the proposition that love is a
philosophy with the capacity to transform stagnant
and dire social and material realities, while also
undert... |
| AART521B | Illusions of Control | "Tech Nightmares, Illusions of Control" is a
hybrid seminar + practice course conceived as a
critical survey on different positions that
articulate rejection, skepticism and resistance to
the current developments of information
technology. Throughout... |
| AART521C | Propaganda for Thinking | "Propaganda that stimulates thinking, in no matter
what field, is useful to the cause of the
oppressed.
Such propaganda is very much needed. Under
governments which serve to promote exploitation,
thought is considered base." - Bertolt Brecht
This co... |
| AART521D | Welcome to Migranthood! | Welcome to Migranthood!
Speaking at a conference on identity in 1987,
Stuart Hall said, "My own sense of identity has
always depended on the fact of being a migrant..
[Now] I find myself centered at last. Now that in
the postmodern age you all feel... |
| AART521F | Friends Playing | Friends Playing is a studio-seminar course in
which we will look at friendship and play as two
necessary components of a future yet to be
imagined or narrativized. Wherever we look we see
private property and individuals navigating the
world alone... |
| AART521G | Foodways in Sculpture and Social Practic | In Foodways we will work on creating sculptures
and experiences that center food and other
materials that are biological. We will think
through a sequence of projects called dinner
parties, where the totality of the experience will
be considered. If... |
| AART521K | The Entanglement of Matter and Meaning | This is a class about ghosts. In this course, we delve into the haunting legacies of forced removals and violent dispossession, exploring how their affectivity and materiality persist through time in archives and historical records that are filled wi... |
| AART550 | MFA Critique | Course open to MFA1 Art Program students only.
This critique class is designed for incoming
MFA-1 students in the Art Program. In class, we
will view and discuss each other's work, and
begin to develop a discourse specific to the
concerns of the gro... |
| AART554 | MFA 1 Seminar Series | MFA 1 SEMINAR SERIES
Designed as a series of seminars of special
topics chosen by the instructor.
Multiple sections may be offered in the same
semester. Please refer to course descriptions by
each section instructor that specify the topic of
the sem... |
| AART556 | Finite and Infinite Games | "There are at least two kinds of games. One could
be called finite, the other infinite. A finite
game is played for the purpose of winning, an
infinite game for the purpose of continuing the
play."
In this advanced seminar we'll use James Carse's
n... |
| AART557 | A Short Correspondence Course: Creating | This class will be a collaboration across three
art schools, CalArts, HDK Hamburg, and KABK The
Hague, and will an attempt to create community
through both digital and material means, framed
through a reconsideration of Mail Art. Mail Art
flourished... |
| AART558 | ABSENT | This class will consider absence (also known as
"negative space") as content and a composition
tool for creating installations, sculptures, and
conceptual art works. This class focuses on the
presence of absence, and will consider the
political and c... |
| AART560 | Sculpture Seminar: Sustainability | Join me in inquiry and research of the following:
What does a sculptural practice looks like when it
is sustainable for our ecosystem, finance, and
mental health? How do we reframe constraints and
policing as possibilities and liberation?
Operating o... |
| AART561 | Text on the Run | This seminar/practice course is a hands-on
observation on how our art experiments, mediums
and subjects are altered by the language of
persecution. Can text be the starting point to
split, cut, and interfere our interdisciplinary
practices? Through a... |
| AART562 | Deviant Objects & Performance | This course is a studio-seminar course for
advanced undergraduate and graduate students that
focuses on intersections of performance art and
sculpture, centering relationships between deviant
materiality, bodies, and the performance of
objecthood. St... |
| AART563 | Art Perception and Collective Connection | Through engaging in various creative forms,
including drawing, photography, performance, video
production, and sonic exploration, students will
critically analyze and reimagine the ancient past,
challenge cultural norms, and cultivate a sense of
comm... |
| AART564 | Southern California Coast Stories | During this class, we will explore the historical, political, biological and geological dynamics that have shaped the coast of Southern California. Committed to a site specific model, this pedagogical approach will focus on indigenous approaches and... |
| AART565 | Inquiry at Heart | Do you question everything? Do you have a question for an answer?
Let's talk about processes, and expand our methodologies of cyclical discovery.
Let's question, conduct research, form hypotheses, create experiments, annotate data analysis, get to a... |
| AART599 | Independent Study | Permission of Instructor only.
Independent Study is a semester-long agreement
developed between a student and a faculty member
to discuss ongoing work, a particular project, or
a course of study.
This agreement, including frequency of meetings... |
| AART606 | Getting to Third | Open to Art School only.
This course may be open to students at other year
levels, and in other Schools, by Permission of
Instructor.
This is a seminar/studio class in which we will
journey in an (idiosyncratic) history of thought
and art which ha... |
| AART607 | Keeping It Real | Open to Art School only.
This course may be open to students at other year
levels, and in other Schools, by Permission of
Instructor.
This course will bring students into an
up-to-date conversation about "source materials"
that influence and dire... |
| AART611 | Critique | Each student will present their work to the class
at least once during the semester. The student
presenting work can determine some of the
parameters for her/his critique.
S/he may either opt to introduce the work before
the discussion begins or s/... |
| AART612 | Art & Politics | What is the power of art? What is art for, who
is it for, what does it do, is it for one or
many? These are some of the question to which this seminar will be addressed. It will be a search for possibilities and their contestations in relation to imp... |
| AART618 | Montage and Memory | This course will examine historical and
contemporary use of montage effects in still
photography, film, video, painting, collage,
assemblage, performance, and installation art.
Slide lectures, videos, and films will be
reviewed, as well assigned rea... |
| AART622 | The Contemporary Exhibition | Open to Art School only.
This course will consider the exhibition as a the
primary context for defining the objectives and
parameters of contemporary art discourse. Among
our concerns will be the shifting roles of
artists and curators, sites of prod... |
| AART624 | Expansive Fields: The Ramble | Open to Art School only.
This course may be open to students at other year
levels, and in other Schools, by Permission of
Instructor.
Students enrolling in this course must be in the
Santa Clarita or greater Los Angeles area. During
this course, w... |
| AART626 | Writing Workshop | Open to Art School only. This course may be open
to students at other year levels, and in other
Schools, by Permission of Instructor.Conventional
writing workshop. Presentations are
e-mailed to the group early in the week. Two
presentations are co... |
| AART627 | People's Theory | Co-taught by John Mandel and Michael Fink, Music
School faculty. An interdisciplinary seminar for
Art School students and composers and performers
in the Music School, it includes participants from
other disciplines as well. This critique
aims to cra... |
| AART635 | Articulation | Course open to Art School only.
This class is a forum for students to articulate
their art practices through generative thinking,
and also to examine the "articular" space both
within and between language and art. |
| AART637 | Work in Context | Open to Art, Photography & Media and Art &
Technology programs.
Artworks are understood within the terms of the
histories and traditions of the various media in
play, and also as they intersect with the larger
context of contemporary culture. In p... |
| AART644 | Tuff Luxe Crit | "Tuff Luxe Crit" is a critique class for the
serious artist who is ready for an extreme
close-up. That is, this course offers a
concrete/exploratory, personal/political,
historical/philosophical analysis of each
student's chosen body of work done wh... |
| AART646 | Collisions Explain Everything | This course is open to Art School students.
This course may be open to students at other year
levels, and in other Schools, by Permission of
Instructor.
"[The] body itself...is both biological and
psychical. This understanding of the body as a
h... |
| AART653 | Time Based Studio: Video Apocalypse | Time Based Studio: Video Apocalypse
This is a comprehensive class on video practice
that includes a historical survey and technical
instruction. The student will learn to operate
the school of art's production and exhibition
equipment including lig... |
| AART662 | The Lost River and the Missing Lake | Lost River/ Missing Lake: The Politics of Water in
Los Angeles. This class will explore specific ways
to transform real-world research into multi-form
artworks. The research at the core of the class
will focus on the problems of water scarcity in
Los... |
| AART664 | Sound and Video in Space | Sound and Video in Space: Where the Quotidian
Meets the Marvelous
3D sound and video installation will be studied,
explored, and executed in class. Students will be
asked to build their own installations both
collaboratively with other students and... |
| AART674 | Pauline Oliveros for Artists | This course is based on the theory and practice of composer, performer, and educator Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016). Her influential "Sonic Meditations" implicate both the physical body and the social body, are rooted in an intensive engagement with th... |
| AART682 | The End After-Catastrophe in Theory, Art | The End After - Catastrophe in theory and poetics
of cinema and video art Not simply a survey of
cinematic cautionary apocalyptic parables: this is
a seminar/crit on time and on the function of
ending/continuity in our art and theory. The class
is al... |
| AART683 | "no Mastery, No Flaky" - a Crit Class | We don't make art alone - even though we are or
often feel, alone in our thoughts, studios, ideas,
or visions. This group course considers how we
might reconsider notions of mutuality,
collaboration, and collegiality alongside our art
making.
Expe... |
| AART684 | The Ephemeral and Letting Go | Both a survey of fleeting work from contemporary
art history as well as an exploration of
ephemerality's expressive potential in our own
studio practice. Performance, sound, social
sculpture, impermanent materials and their
afterimage will all be inv... |
| AART685 | Queer Archives: Art&Advocacy | From the VISUAL AIDS website: "Visual AIDS
utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue,
supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy,
because AIDS is not over."
We will focus on art, artists and practices in
the subject of archives, advo... |
| AART686 | The Multiform Elsewhere | While Western thought has a long tradition of
absolutes-isolating self from environment, active
from passive, cause from effect, there have always
been strands of thought that complicate, refuse,
or upend this model, and focus instead on the
intersub... |
| AART687 | Performing Problems | This hybrid practice and seminar course,
Performing Problems, explores and theorizes
performance (live, on-video, online) utilizing the
provocation of a "problem". For this course,
"problems" might include but are not restricted to
the generosity of... |
| AART688 | EastofBorneo: Research, Writing, Editing | This is a studio course for students interested in research, writing, and editing. Centered on the ongoing work of EastofBorneo, the online magazine of contemporary art published by the Art School, the class will work in concert with the editorial te... |
| AART689 | Autotelia: Writing Workshop for Artists | This semester long course is a workshop in which students will have the opportunity to garner feedback about original writing, written in response to class prompts. The focus of our reading and writing will be on constraint-based writing, however loo... |
| AART690 | MFA 2 Seminar Series | The MFA 2 seminar series is a 4 unit course
facilitated by Art Program faculty and
specifically created for graduating MFA students.
Continuing with the work developed during the
first MFA year this seminar is conceived as an
opportunity to delve int... |
| AART690A | MFA 2 Seminar: Art X World | What are the intersections of art and politics?
This question is difficult for many reasons, least
of all that both terms are used interchangeably to
talk about multiple facets of human organization-
socially and spatially. These are some of the
aspe... |
| AART699 | Independent Study | Permission of Instructor only.
Independent Study is a semester-long agreement
developed between a student and a faculty member
to discuss ongoing work, a particular project, or
a course of study.
This agreement, including frequency of meetings... |
| AART700 | MFA Independent Studio | Graduate students are expected to use these weeks
as a serious block of time for studio work and
meetings. All graduate students must enroll in MFA
Independent Studio. |
| AART701 | Heavy Metal | Open to Art School only.
This is a 6-week intensive workshop, built around
metalworking fundamentals in order to execute
small-scale objects. M.I.G., T.I.G. and
fabricating basics will be covered. |
| AART705D | Molto Brutto: Survivalist Furniture | So, you've taken the Super Shop's Orientation.now
what? Looking to fill the vacuum with some
tangible building skills? This 6-week technical
workshop class might be for you! We will be using
Enzo Mari's wooden furniture design classic
textbook: 'Auto... |
| AART705E | Silkscreen Workshop | Silkscreen workshop is for incoming students
within the Art School.
This workshop is intensive on learning how to
approach silkscreening. We will focus on
registration, paper, and ink additives.
There is a $50 course fee, which provides most
materi... |
| AART705F | Relief Printing Workshop | This workshop is for incoming students within the
School of Art. The workshop is an intensive on
learning how to approach relief printing using
type high linoleum blocks. Vandercook Proof Press
will be utilized for the printing process. We will
focus... |
| AART705G | Etching Workshop | This workshop is for incoming students within the
School of Art. The workshop is intensive on
learning how to approach intaglio printing using
copper metal. Takach Press will be utilized for
the printing process. We will explore additive
processes li... |
| AART705H | Monotype Workshop | Known as the most painterly process in print. We will be exploring the "one off" through the monotype process. The Takach press will be utilized. Exploring different scopes through additive and subtractive methods. Utilizing found materials, stencil... |
| AART708 | Claylab - Wheelthrowing | This three-week intensive workshop will focus on
the basics of wheel throwing including wedging,
centering, throwing, trimming, firing and glazing.
During each class students will each have access
to a throwing wheel and a class supply of clay to
pra... |
| AART709 | Claylab - Handbuilding | This workshop will be a five week intensive
exploration into constructing sculptures and
objects with clay. Topics covered will include
handbuilding, coiling, slab forming, firing, and
glazing. We will work on one project for the
duration of the cour... |
| AART710A | Drawing | Course open to Art School only, by Permission of
Instructor only.
The Studio Series comprises discipline-specific
studio-based courses that provide BFA students the
opportunity to learn both technically and
conceptually through hands-on experience.... |
| AART710B | Painting | Course open to Art School only, by Permission of
Instructor only.
The Studio Series comprises discipline-specific
studio-based courses that provide BFA students the
opportunity to learn both technically and
conceptually through hands-on experience.... |
| AART710C | Sculpture | Open to BFA1 and BFA2 Art Program students only.
Open to other students by Permission of
Instructor only.
The Studio Series comprises
discipline-specific studio-based courses that
provide BFA students the opportunity to learn both
technically and co... |
| AART710D | Print & Digital Media | Open to BFA1 and BFA2 Art Program students only.
Open to other students by Permission of
Instructor only.
The Studio Series comprises
discipline-specific studio-based courses that
provide BFA students the opportunity to learn both
technically and co... |
| AART710E | Video | Open to BFA1 and BFA2 Art Program students only.
Open to other students by Permission of
Instructor only.
The Studio Series comprises
discipline-specific studio-based courses that
provide BFA students the opportunity to learn both
technically and co... |
| AART710F | Social Practice | The Studio Series is comprised of
discipline-specific studio based courses that
provide BFA students the opportunity to learn
both technically and conceptually through hands
on experience. At present, Drawing, Painting,
Sculpture, Print Lab, Time-Bas... |
| AART710G | Ceramics | Open to BFA1 and BFA2 Art Program students only.
Open to other students by Permission of
Instructor only.
The Studio Series comprises
discipline-specific studio-based courses that
provide BFA students the opportunity to learn both
technically and co... |
| AART710J | Writing | Open to BFA1 and BFA2 Art Program students only.
Open to other students by Permission of
Instructor only.
The Studio Series comprises
discipline-specific studio-based courses that
provide BFA students the opportunity to learn both
technically and co... |
| AART710K | Time Based Studio: Copies & Fakes | Open to BFA1 and BFA2 Art Program students only.
Open to other students by Permission of
Instructor only.
The Studio Series comprises
discipline-specific studio-based courses that
provide BFA students the opportunity to learn both
technically and co... |
| AART710L | Sound in Art | Open to BFA1 and BFA2 Art Program students only.
Open to other students by Permission of
Instructor only.
The Studio Series comprises
discipline-specific studio-based courses that
provide BFA students the opportunity to learn both
technically and co... |
| AART710N | Sculpture for Staying Alive | What does it mean to have the basic necessities of
life? Are food, water, and shelter enough? Do we
not need human interaction, culture, and art? We
will engage basic survival strategies, from
gleaning to codeswitching, to address questions of
enviro... |
| AART710P | Intensive Painting Workshop | Open to Art School BFAs. An advanced painting
class. Experimentation is encouraged. Involves
class critiques, readings, image presentations,
field trips, and in class studio work. |
| AART710T | Time Based Studio: Making Scenes | This is a production studio course for artists on creating/directing narrative scenes/vignettes. This is an intro to narrative for camera. Students will plan, structure, shoot and edit two given dramatic scenes with the goal to understand and potenti... |
| AART710U | Drawing, a Verb | Drawing, a Verb is a gathering space for students who love to draw. We will meet weekly for improvisational drawing that is followed by an open critique of drawings created in class. During each session, students will be provided with drawing materia... |
| AART710V | a sewing/pattern-making studio class | Feminist Quilting Bee is a sewing/pattern-making studio class that explores how artists create new artworks while gossiping, warning, and informing one another as a form of care. Deeply informed by feminist essays such as Kwame Holme's "What's The Te... |
| AART711 | Drawing | Course open to Art School only, by Permission of
Instructor only.
The Studio Series is comprised of
discipline-specific studio based courses that
provide BFA students the opportunity to learn
both technically and conceptually through hands
on experie... |
| AART714 | Print & Digital Media | Course open to Art School only, by Permission of
Instructor only.
The Studio Series is comprised of
discipline-specific studio based courses that
provide BFA students the opportunity to learn
both technically and conceptually through hands
on experie... |
| AART719 | Performance: OK ANIMALS | Course available by Permission of Instructor
only.
The Studio Series is comprised of
discipline-specific studio based courses that
provide BFA students the opportunity to learn
both technically and conceptually through hands
on experience. At present... |
| AART799 | Independent Study | Permission of Instructor only.
Independent Study is a semester-long agreement
developed between a student and a faculty member
to discuss ongoing work, a particular project, or
a course of study.
This agreement, including frequency of meetings... |
| ACOM111 | Digital Design Lab I | Digital Design Lab I is open to BFA1 Graphic
Design students only. This course may be open to
students at other year levels, and in other
schools, by permission of instructor.
An introduction to basic Mac and Adobe software
for graphic designers in... |
| ACOM112 | Digital Design Lab II | Digital Design Lab II is open to BFA1 Graphic
Design students only. This course may be open to
students at other year levels, and in other
schools, by permission of instructor.
A continuation of basic Mac and Adobe software
for graphic designers inc... |
| ACOM218 | Digital Skills for Artists | Open to BFA1 and BFA2 Art School students only. Open to others by Permission of Instructor.
Digital Skills for Artists provides hands-on,
conceptual projects to integrate Mac and Adobe
software skills with individual studio practice
and critical thi... |
| ACOM718 | Digital Skills for Artists | Registration by Permission of Instructor only.
Digital Skills for Artists provides hands-on,
conceptual projects to integrate Mac and Adobe
software skills with individual studio practice
and critical thinking. Working on project driven
assignments... |
| AGRA005 | Workshop With Visiting Designer | This practicum is restricted to Art School Graphic
Design BFA 2, 3, and 4. Students will engage in a
project or series of projects presented by a
visiting artist. Projects are open-ended, but are
intended to intersect with both the visiting
artists'... |
| AGRA008 | Experience Design | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School BFA students. This workshop examines the
practice of designing memorable experiences using
environments, video content, audio, light and
technology. Participants will review a brief
history of the p... |
| AGRA013 | Typography in Title Design | This workshop is open to the Institute. Manija
Emran is an Afghan Graphic Designer and
Typographer based in Los Angeles. With a love of
the handmade, an eye for detail and an extensive
typographic background, Manija studied in Montreal
before working... |
| AGRA014 | Intro to Cinema 4D | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School BFA students. This workshop provides an
introduction to motion design and animation with
Cinema 4D. Classes will feature a balance of
software instruction, experimental design
exercises, and assiste... |
| AGRA017 | Intro to Unity for Designers | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School BFA Students. This workshop is restricted
to Art School BFA students. Unity has become
increasingly popular with artists and designers
for its real-time rendering capabilities and
interactive possib... |
| AGRA019 | Dig. Imagemaking-Dark Magic of Photoshop | Digital Imagemaking - Dark Magic of Photoshop.
This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School BFA students. Layers, masks, channels,
Crtl+T. If you have no idea what they are, this
workshop is for you. Learn the four horsemen and
they will take... |
| AGRA023 | Apparel Design: Salvage Self | As we look to reduce the apparel industry's environmental impact and carbon footprint, this workshop explores how to
salvage the old to create new. Through recycled materials, natural dye processes, deconstruction / reconstruction, you will have the... |
| AGRA025 | End to End: an in Depth Look At Apparel | In this workshop students will learn about the
process of designing an apparel collection from
concept to finish. Students will work in teams
(virtually) and together will define a consumer
and create a concept for a collection. Students
will produce... |
| AGRA026 | Contemporary Design Literacy | Contemporary Design Literacy offers a deep dive
into the many modes of practice in graphic design
today, and examines how urgent issues, such as
diversity and inclusion, affect graphic design. In
this project-based workshop, students will
research co... |
| AGRA027 | The Brand Now | A series of conversations, workshops and making
sessions focusing on how contemporary brands
function, how they show up in our lives, and why
this matters. Branding strategies will be looked
at critically from the point of view of the brand,
the cons... |
| AGRA028 | 3.5D Typography | 3.5D Typography will be a workshop focussed on
type created specifically for three-dimensional
use onscreen. By creating a digital wordmark for a
brand or institution, students will create and
animate dimensional letterforms that push the
envelope to... |
| AGRA029 | Honorable Mentions: Landmarks At Calarts | In this workshop, participants will identify a
landmark around the CalArts campus - it can be
historic, personal, or constructed-and research or
reflect on its importance. The landmarks can be
concrete (the library, the blue wall, Ed Fella's
office)... |
| AGRA030 | Basic Lettering | This workshop will cover the basics of handlettering and apply this to a final outcome. Students will learn foundational hand lettering and drawing techniques with traditional (painting) or digital (vector software) media. Students will have an oppor... |
| AGRA101 | Graphic Design I Lecture | Required for BFA1 students in Graphic Design, and
must also register for AGRA-102. Course open to
BFA Graphic Design students only.
An introduction to the basic principles,
strategies, methods and processes necessary for
the practice of graphic de... |
| AGRA102 | Graphic Design I Studio | Required for BFA1 students in Graphic Design, and
must also register for AGRA-101. Course open to
BFA Graphic Design students only.
The studio component for AGRA101. Concepts
generated in AGRA101 are translated into visual
form from initial ideat... |
| AGRA103 | Graphic Design I Lecture | Required for BFA1 students in Graphic Design, and
must also register for AGRA-104. Course open to
BFA Graphic Design students only.
An introduction to the basic principles,
strategies, methods and processes necessary for
the practice of graphic de... |
| AGRA104 | Graphic Design I Studio | Required for BFA1 students in Graphic Design, and
must also register for AGRA-103. Course open to
BFA Graphic Design students only.
The studio component for AGRA103. Concepts
generated in AGRA103 are translated into visual
form from initial ideat... |
| AGRA105 | Design Issues | Course open to BFA1 Graphic Design students only.
Required for BFA1 Graphic Design students.
An exploration of the theory and practice of
Graphic Design. Readings, discussion and
research will map out an introduction to the
design profession, its... |
| AGRA110 | Skills for Visualization | Open to the Institute by permission of instructor.
A workshop in fundamental color theory; including
basic color perception and vocabulary. Exercises
will focus on color mixing, color harmony and
color contrast. This course also addresses
developing... |
| AGRA121 | Intro to Digital Photography | Required for BFA1 students in Graphic Design.
With a focus on the needs of the contemporary
graphic designer, this course is an introduction
to the essential technical skills and information
needed to produce high quality digital images.
Through... |
| AGRA199 | Independent Study | Permission of Instructor only.
Independent Study is a semester-long agreement
developed between a student and a faculty member
to discuss ongoing work, a particular project, or
a course of study.
This agreement, including frequency of meetings... |
| AGRA201 | Graphic Design II Lecture | Required for BFA2 students in Graphic Design, and
must also register for AGRA-202. Course open to
BFA Graphic Design students only.
This course builds on the basic design skills
introduced in the first year by introducing
conceptual thinking as th... |
| AGRA202 | Graphic Design II Studio | Required for BFA2 students in Graphic Design, and
must also register for AGRA-201. Course open to
BFA Graphic Design students only.
The studio component for AGRA201. Concepts
generated in AGRA201 are translated into visual
form from initial ideat... |
| AGRA203 | Graphic Design II Lecture | Required for BFA2 students in Graphic Design, and
must also register for AGRA-204. Course open to
BFA Graphic Design students only.
This course builds on the basic design skills
introduced in the first year by introducing
conceptual thinking as th... |
| AGRA204 | Graphic Design II Studio | Required for BFA2 students in Graphic Design, and
must also register for AGRA-203. Course open to
BFA Graphic Design students only.
Concepts generated in AGRA203 are translated into
visual form from initial ideation to final
outcome. This course... |
| AGRA215 | Typography I | Course required for Graphic Design BFA2 students, open to Graphic Design BFA 3 and above. Open to Institute BFA2 and above by permission of instructor.
Two semester sequence. Projects explore type
terms and anatomy, classic and contemporary
typogra... |
| AGRA216 | Typography II | Required for Graphic Design BFA2 students, open to Graphic Design BFA 3 and above. Open to Institute BFA2 and above by permission of instructor.
Second semester in two semester sequence. An introduction to the fundamentals of typography. Projects ex... |
| AGRA299 | Independent Study | Permission of Instructor only.
Independent Study is a semester-long agreement
developed between a student and a faculty member
to discuss ongoing work, a particular project, or
a course of study.
This agreement, including frequency of meetings... |
| AGRA301 | Graphic Design III Lecture | Required for BFA3 students in Graphic Design, and
must also register for AGRA-302.
Course open to BFA Graphic Design students only.
Building on and advancing the objectives of GD I
and II, this course challenges students to apply
their design ski... |
| AGRA302 | Graphic Design III Studio | Required for BFA3 students in Graphic Design, and
must also register for AGRA-301.
Course open to BFA Graphic Design students only.
Building on and advancing the objectives of GD I
and II, this course challenges students to apply
their design skil... |
| AGRA303 | Graphic Design III Lecture | Required for BFA3 students in Graphic Design, and
must also register for AGRA-302.
Course open to BFA Graphic Design students only.
Building on and advancing the objectives of GD I
and II, this course challenges students to apply
their design skil... |
| AGRA304 | Graphic Design III Studio | Required for BFA3 students in Graphic Design, and
must also register for AGRA-301.
Course open to BFA Graphic Design students only.
Building on and advancing the objectives of GD I
and II, this course challenges students to apply
their design skil... |
| AGRA315 | Typography III | Required for BFA 3 students in Graphic Design. Open to Institute BFA 3 students and above by permission of instructor.
An exploration of the connotative and denotative
nature of text, through systems of hierarchy and
composition. |
| AGRA399 | Independent Study | Permission of Instructor only.
Independent Study is a semester-long agreement
developed between a student and a faculty member
to discuss ongoing work, a particular project, or
a course of study.
This agreement, including frequency of meetings... |
| AGRA401 | Graphic Design IV Lecture | Required for BFA4 students in Graphic Design, and
must also register for AGRA-402. Course open to
BFA Graphic Design students only.
The focus of this course is on refining design
work and preparation for the professional world.
Projects focus on... |
| AGRA402 | Graphic Design IV Studio | Required for BFA4 students in Graphic Design, and
must also register for AGRA-401. Course open to
BFA Graphic Design students only.
Concepts generated in AGRA401 are translated into
visual form from initial ideation to final
outcome. This course... |
| AGRA403 | Graphic Design IV Lecture | Required for BFA4 students in Graphic Design, and
must also register for AGRA-404. Course open to
BFA Graphic Design students only.
The focus of this course is on refining design
work and preparation for the professional world.
Projects focus on... |
| AGRA404 | Graphic Design IV Studio | Required for BFA4 students in Graphic Design, and
must also register for AGRA-403. Course open to
BFA Graphic Design students only.
Concepts generated in AGRA403 are translated into
visual form from initial ideation to final
outcome. This course... |
| AGRA411 | Visiting Designer Workshops | This course provides an administrative and credit
structure for a series of workshops by visiting
graphic designers. The class will convene on
around three occasions over the course of the
semester for a visiting designer lecture (open to
all student... |
| AGRA421 | Imagemaking I | Required for BFA3 students in Graphic Design. Open to Institute BFA3 and above.
Imagemaking I provides a structure for an
introduction to essential image-making materials
and techniques. The course is centered on the
divide between hand and digital... |
| AGRA422 | Imagemaking II | Course open to BFA3 or BFA4 Art School students
only.
Image Making II provides a structure for an
exploration and practice of traditional and
digital image making techniques. Image II allows
for more time, freedom and individuality than
Imagemaking... |
| AGRA430 | Beginning Web | Course open to Graphic Design BFA2 and above students. Course open to Institute BFA2 and above by permission of instructor.
The class covers the essential methodologies, processes, conceptual skills, and knowledge of software vital to the design, pr... |
| AGRA435 | Intro To VR Workshop/ Cinema 4D + Unity | This course examines the VR workflow from Cinema
4D to Unity so as to create VR spaces and
experiences. In a workshop type environment
students will experiment with the new forms of
design narratives made for the HTC Vive headset.
Focus will be on st... |
| AGRA436 | Advanced Publication Design | In this advanced editorial design course students
will work on developing a single print publication
over the entire semester. The course will cover
all aspects of editorial design from conception,
content development, design direction, typography
an... |
| AGRA437 | Silkscreen Workshop | Silkscreen workshop is for BFA 1 students within
the Graphic Design program. The workshop is
intensive on learning how to approach
silkscreening for poster making. We will focus on
registration, paper, and ink additives. A
mandatory $50 Print and Me... |
| AGRA438 | GD Program Visiting Designers: The Class | Do you love seeing the Graphic Design Program's Visiting Designers but wish you could delve deeper AND get credit for attending the lectures and presentations? This class will achieve that!
Each student (or possibly several students) will be assigne... |
| AGRA439 | Designing The Design Centre | Designing The Design Centre is part one of a two-semester (year-long) course for Graphic Design students who are interested in collectively conceptualizing, developing, and articulating a model for The Design Center at CalArts. The Design Center is p... |
| AGRA440A | Future of Publications | Mutant Design is a series of upper level graphic
design seminars that deal with relevant and
pertinent topical issues that usually exceed the
traditional boundaries of Graphic Design.
Reading, discussion, assigned projects and/or
field trips may be u... |
| AGRA450 | Graphic Design Workshop | Course open to BFA3 or BFA4 Graphic Design
students only.
With faculty supervision, students design and
produce posters and collateral material for
CalArts events, along with theoretical projects
that address specific design and production
problems... |
| AGRA451 | Professional Practice | Course open to BFA4 Graphic Design
students only, or by Permission of Instructor.
From contracts to job negotiation, this course covers essential practical information necessary to contemporary professional practice. The class includes guests and fie... |
| AGRA460 | Beginning Motion Graphics | Course open to BFA2 and above Graphic Design
students only by permission of instructor. This
course may be open to students at other year
levels, and in other Schools, by Permission of
Instructor.
This course explores basic concepts and methods
for... |
| AGRA465 | Animating with Cinema 4D | This course is designed for anyone who is new to
Cinema 4D and wants to learn how to create 3D
stills and animation. The course covers Cinema
4D's interface, working within a 3D environment,
modeling using the built in primitive and NURBs
objects, ho... |
| AGRA470 | Advanced Coding for the Web | This course covers a broad spectrum of coding
techniques that will enable students to create
contemporary, responsive webpages. While
discussions about design and usability are
encouraged, the central focus will be on front-end
development. Students... |
| AGRA471 | User Experience Design for the Web | The course focuses on the visual and functional
aspects of user experience design for the web. The
projects will be geared towards creating mockups
and prototypes. While not worrying about coding,
we will deeply explore the project phases
necessary t... |
| AGRA474 | Typographics I A | Course open to BFA4 Graphic Design students only,
by Permission of Instructor only.
This studio course explores current issues in
typographic practice - historic and contemporary
typographic practice, as well as the relationship
between typography... |
| AGRA475 | Type Design A | Course open to BFA4 Graphic Design students only
and by Permission of Instructor only.
The objective of this class is to give students a
general understanding of letterforms, typeface
design and how to draw with Bezier technology.
First semester... |
| AGRA476 | Type Design B | Course open to BFA4 Graphic Design students only
and by Permission of Instructor only.
The objective of this class is to give students a
general understanding of letterforms, typeface
design and how to draw with Bezier technology.
First semester th... |
| AGRA477 | Typographics I B | Course open to BFA4 Graphic Design students only,
by Permission of Instructor only. Building on
concepts covered in Typographics 1a, this class
will introduce students to typographic practices
for motion and screens. Through a series of
projects, stu... |
| AGRA478 | Type Design History | Open to graphic design program BFA4s and MFA2s
enrolled in Type Design.
This course is an historical survey of the
evolution of type design. Encompassing technical,
functional, cultural and aesthetic development
from cave painting to Keedy Sans. Pa... |
| AGRA485A | Public Projects Series: Banana | Public Projects Series: Banana
Open to very limited numbers of graphic design
program MFA2s and 3s, and BFA3s and 4s, by
per-mission of instructor.
Knock knock!
Who's there?
Banana!
Banana who?
Banana's not here.
Banana split!
Or at least th... |
| AGRA485G | Calarts Collaborates:non-Profit Partners | CalArts Collaborates: Design for Non-Profit
Partners
In this year-long elective, students will partner
with a non-profit organization to create a series
of projects that address an urgent social or
political issue based on a prompt from the
organizat... |
| AGRA490C | Critical Conversations | In this combined seminar/studio course we will
examine urgent critical issues that inform the
field of design today, and engage those
conversations through visual work. Through weekly
readings and discussions, we'll examine the ways
in which politics... |
| AGRA490F | Design and Politics | This studio/seminar hybrid workshop will take
place over seven weeks and will take current
geopolitical events as context for discussion of
contemporary design's relationship to the major
economic-political currents of our time. A curated
series of r... |
| AGRA490J | Digital Multi-Platform Workshop | This course is an advanced, multi-platform
exploration of digital tools. Outcomes are
open-ended and projects are designed to reveal and
question unspoken assumptions about audience,
function and form that are embedded in both
conventions of Ui/Ux de... |
| AGRA490K | Redefining the Borders of Graphic Design | This course will be dedicated to an investigation
of different sources of graphic design knowledge
and practice. The focus will be drawn from the
interests, research, and inquiries of the
instructor. Offering a multiplicity of departure
points and pe... |
| AGRA492 | MOTION 2 - Type in Motion | This class is intended to expand your knowledge of motion graphics with a series of projects that focus on typography as a cinematic expression. Using this lens, you'll look beyond the title sequence and find challenges that reflect motion in a wider... |
| AGRA493 | Designing for Spaces | Designing for Spaces (EoYS)
Course open to BFA 3 and 4 Graphic Design
students. Others by permission of instructor
only. D300 and D301 galleries (along with The
Motion Show in the Bijou). The website, posters,
announcements, e-mail blasts, social med... |
| AGRA496 | Motion 1 | Open to graphic design program MFA1s, BFA3s, and
BFA4s, by permission of instructor.
May be open to students in other schools, by
permission of instructor.
This studio class is comprised of a series of
short projects or prompts. Students learn the... |
| AGRA497 | Motion 2 | Course priority for Graphic Design BFA3 & 4 students, and may be open to BFA3 & 4 students and in other Schools, by permission of instructor.
This course emphasizes the process of making
Motion Graphics from storyboards through finished motion piece... |
| AGRA499 | Independent Study | Permission of Instructor only.
Independent Study is a semester-long agreement
developed between a student and a faculty member
to discuss ongoing work, a particular project, or
a course of study.
This agreement, including frequency of meetings... |
| AGRA501 | Graduate Seminar I Lecture | Required for MFA1 students in Graphic Design, and
must also register for AGRA-502. Course open to
MFA Graphic Design students only.
The MFA1 year of Graduate Seminar is comprised of
a series of structured projects and prompts
intended to help stude... |
| AGRA502 | Graduate Seminar I Studio | Required for MFA1 students in Graphic Design, and
must also register for AGRA-501. Course open to
MFA Graphic Design students only.
The MFA1 year of Graduate Seminar is comprised of
a series of structured projects and prompts
intended to help stud... |
| AGRA503 | Graduate Seminar I Lecture | Required for MFA1 students in Graphic Design, and
must also register for AGRA-504.
Course open to MFA Graphic Design students only.
The MFA1 year of Graduate Seminar is comprised of
a series of structured projects and prompts
intended to help stu... |
| AGRA504 | Graduate Seminar I Studio | Required for MFA1 students in Graphic Design, and
must also register for AGRA-503.
Course open to Graphic Design MFA Program only.
The MFA1 year of Graduate Seminar is comprised of
a series of structured projects and prompts
intended to help student... |
| AGRA515 | Typography I | Course open to Graphic Design MFA. Open to Institute MFA by permission of instructor.
An introduction to the fundamentals of
typography. Projects will focus on the
understanding of: hierarchy through letter, word,
and line spacing; traditional and m... |
| AGRA516 | Typography II | Course open to Graphic Design MFA. Open to Institute MFA by permission of instructor.
An introduction to the fundamentals of
typography. Projects will focus on the
understanding of: hierarchy through letter, word,
and line spacing; traditional and... |
| AGRA551 | Visual Literacy Lecture | Required for MFA1 Graphic Design students in the
3-year track and must also register for AGRA-552.
This course may be open to students at other year
levels, and in other Schools, by Permission of
Instructor.
An introduction to the basic principles,... |
| AGRA552 | Visual Literacy Studio | Required for MFA1 Graphic Design students in the
3-year track and must also register for AGRA-551.
This course may be open to students at other year
levels, and in other Schools, by Permission of
Instructor.
The studio component for AGRA-551. Concep... |
| AGRA553 | Visual Literacy Lecture | Required for MFA1 Graphic Design students in the
3-year track and must also register for AGRA-554.
This course may be open to students at other year
levels, and in other Schools, by Permission of
Instructor.
This course builds on the fall semester V... |
| AGRA554 | Visual Literacy Studio | Required for MFA1 Graphic Design students in the
3-year track and must also register for AGRA-553.
This course may be open to students at other year
levels, and in other Schools, by Permission of
Instructor.
The studio component for AGRA553. Concep... |
| AGRA596 | Motion 1 | Open to graphic design program MFA1s, BFA3s, and
BFA4s, by permission of instructor.
May be open to students in other schools, by
permission of instructor.
This studio class is comprised of a series of
short projects or prompts. Students learn the... |
| AGRA599 | Independent Study | Permission of Instructor only.
Independent Study is a semester-long agreement
developed between a student and a faculty member
to discuss ongoing work, a particular project, or
a course of study.
This agreement, including frequency of meetings... |
| AGRA601 | Graduate Seminar II Lecture | Required for MFA2 students in Graphic Design, and
must also register for AGRA-602. Course open to
MFA Graphic Design students only.
The MFA2 year of Graduate Seminar focuses on
defining, researching and producing a graphic
design thesis. In the Fa... |
| AGRA602 | Graduate Seminar II Studio | Required for MFA2 students in Graphic Design, and
must also register for AGRA-601. Course open to
MFA Graphic Design students only.
The MFA2 year of Graduate Seminar focuses on
defining, researching and producing a graphic
design thesis. In the Fa... |
| AGRA603 | Graduate Seminar II Lecture | Required for MFA2 students in Graphic Design, and
must also register for AGRA-604. Course open to
Graphic Design MFA Program only. In the Spring
semester, Graduate Seminar provides a formal
structure for continuing exploration,
investigation, extens... |
| AGRA604 | Graduate Seminar II Studio | Required for MFA2 students in Graphic Design, and
must also register for AGRA-603. Course open to
MFA Graphic Design students only.
In the Spring semester, Graduate Seminar
provides a formal structure for continuing
exploration, investigation, ex... |
| AGRA611 | Visiting Designer Workshops | This course provides an administrative and credit
structure for a series of workshops by visiting
graphic designers. The class will convene on
around three occasions over the course of the
semester for a visiting designer lecture (open to
all student... |
| AGRA615 | Typography III | Course open to Graphic Design MFA. Open to Institute MFA by permission of instructor.
An exploration of the connotative and denotative nature of text, through systems of hierarchy and composition. |
| AGRA621 | Imagemaking I | Imagemaking I provides a structure for an
exploration of basic techniques and processes
used to create images. Traditional techniques
such as drawing, printmaking and collage are
intertwined with photography and digital
technology. The course pays sp... |
| AGRA622 | Imagemaking II | Course open to MFA Graphic Design students only.
Imagemaking II is an advanced exploration of
techniques and processes used to create images.
Techniques introduced in Imagemaking I are
continued with an emphasis on more advanced
approaches and ap... |
| AGRA630 | Beginning Web | Course open to Graphic Design MFA. Open to Institute MFA by permission of instructor.
The class covers the essential methodologies, processes, conceptual skills, and knowledge of software vital to the design, programming, and implementation of webs... |
| AGRA635 | Intro To VR Workshop/ Cinema 4D + Unity | This course examines the VR workflow from Cinema
4D to Unity so as to create VR spaces and
experiences. In a workshop type environment
students will experiment with the new forms of
design narratives made for the HTC Vive headset.
Focus will be on st... |
| AGRA636 | Advanced Publication Design | In this advanced editorial design course students
will work on developing a single print publication
over the entire semester. The course will cover
all aspects of editorial design from conception,
content development, design direction, typography
an... |
| AGRA637 | Silkscreen Workshop | Silkscreen workshop is for incoming MFA 1 students
within the Graphic Design program. The workshop is
intensive on learning how to approach
silkscreening for poster making. We will focus on
registration, paper, and ink additives. A
mandatory $50 Pri... |
| AGRA638 | GD Program Visiting Designers: The Class | Do you love seeing the Graphic Design Program's
Visiting Designers but wish you could delve deeper
AND get credit for attending the lectures and
presentations? This class will achieve that!
Each student (or possibly several students) will
be assign... |
| AGRA639 | Designing The Design Centre | Designing The Design Centre is part one of a two-semester (year-long) course for Graphic Design students who are interested in collectively conceptualizing, developing, and articulating a model for The Design Center at CalArts. The Design Center is p... |
| AGRA650 | Graphic Design Workshop | Course open to MFA Graphic Design students only,
two year track only.
With faculty supervision, students design and
produce posters and collateral material for
CalArts events, along with theoretical projects
that address specific design and producti... |
| AGRA651 | Professional Practice | Course open to MFA2 and MFA3 Graphic Design Program students only, or by Permission of Instructor only.
From contracts to job negotiation, this course covers essential practical information necessary to contemporary professional practice. The class... |
| AGRA660 | Beginning Motion Graphics | Course open to MFA Graphic Design
students only by permission of instructor. This
course may be open to students at other year
levels, and in other Schools, by Permission of
Instructor.
This course explores basic concepts and methods
for creating m... |
| AGRA665 | Animating with Cinema 4D | This course is designed for anyone who is new to
Cinema 4D and wants to learn how to create 3D
stills and animation. The course covers Cinema
4D's interface, working within a 3D environment,
modeling using the built in primitive and NURBs
objects, ho... |
| AGRA670 | Advanced Coding for the Web | This course covers a broad spectrum of coding
techniques that will enable students to create
contemporary, responsive webpages. While
discussions about design and usability are
encouraged, the central focus will be on front-end
development. Students... |
| AGRA671 | User Experience Design for the Web | The course focuses on the visual and functional
aspects of user experience design for the web. The
projects will be geared towards creating mockups
and prototypes. While not worrying about coding,
we will deeply explore the project phases
necessary t... |
| AGRA674 | Typographics I A | Course open to MFA Graphic Design students only,
by Permission of Instructor only. Required of
MFA1 Graphic Design students.
This studio course explores current issues in
typographic practice - historic and contemporary
typographic practice, as well... |
| AGRA675 | Type Design A | Course open to MFA Graphic Design students only
and by Permission of Instructor only.
The objective of this class is to give students a
general understanding of letterforms, typeface
design and how to draw with Bezier technology.
First semester th... |
| AGRA676 | Type Design B | Course open to MFA Graphic Design students only
and by Permission of Instructor only.
The objective of this class is to give students a
general understanding of letterforms, typeface
design and how to draw with Bezier technology.
First semester the... |
| AGRA677 | Typographics I B | Course open to Graphic Design students only, by
Permission of Instructor only. Building on
concepts covered in Typographics 1a, this class
will introduce students to typographic practices
for motion and screens. Through a series of
projects, students... |
| AGRA678 | Type Design History | Open to graphic design program BFA4s and MFA2s
enrolled in Type Design.
This course is an historical survey of the
evolution of type design. Encompassing technical,
functional, cultural and aesthetic development
from cave painting to Keedy Sans. Pa... |
| AGRA685 | Public Projects Series | Open to very limited numbers of graphic design
program MFA2s and 3s, and BFA3s and 4s, by
permission of instructor. Public Projects are a
series of faculty-led course-based projects that
recruit students as collaborators in graphic
design research, c... |
| AGRA685A | Public Projects Series: Banana | Public Projects Series: Banana
Open to very limited numbers of graphic design
program MFA2s and 3s, and BFA3s and 4s, by
per-mission of instructor.
Knock knock!
Who's there?
Banana!
Banana who?
Banana's not here.
Banana split!
Or at least th... |
| AGRA685G | Calarts Collaborates:non-Profit Partners | CalArts Collaborates: Design for Non-Profit
Partners
In this year-long elective, students will partner
with a non-profit organization to create a series
of projects that address an urgent social or
political issue based on a prompt from the
organizat... |
| AGRA690C | Critical Conversations | In this combined seminar/studio course we will
examine urgent critical issues that inform the
field of design today, and engage those
conversations through visual work. Through weekly
readings and discussions, we'll examine the ways
in which politics... |
| AGRA690F | Design and Politics | This studio/seminar hybrid workshop will take
place over seven weeks and will take current
geopolitical events as context for discussion of
contemporary design's relationship to the major
economic-political currents of our time. A curated
series of r... |
| AGRA690J | Digital Multi-Platform Workshop | This course is an advanced, multi-platform
exploration of digital tools. Outcomes are
open-ended and projects are designed to reveal and
question unspoken assumptions about audience,
function and form that are embedded in both
conventions of Ui/Ux de... |
| AGRA690K | Redefining the Borders of Graphic Design | This course will be dedicated to an investigation
of different sources of graphic design knowledge
and practice. The focus will be drawn from the
interests, research, and inquiries of the
instructor. Offering a multiplicity of departure
points and pe... |
| AGRA692 | MOTION 2 - Type in Motion | This class is intended to expand your knowledge of motion graphics with a series of projects that focus on typography as a cinematic expression. Using this lens, you'll look beyond the title sequence and find challenges that reflect motion in a wider... |
| AGRA693 | Designing for Spaces | Designing for Spaces (EoYS). Course open to MFA
Graphic Design students. Others by permission of
instructor only. D300 and D301 galleries (along
with The Motion Show in the Bijou). The website,
posters, announcements, e-mail blasts, social
media, etc... |
| AGRA697 | Motion 2 | Course priority for Graphic Design MFA students, and may be open to MFA students and in other Schools, by permission of instructor.
This course emphasizes the process of making
Motion Graphics from storyboards through finished motion pieces. Realizi... |
| AGRA699 | Independent Study | Permission of Instructor only.
Independent Study is a semester-long agreement
developed between a student and a faculty member
to discuss ongoing work, a particular project, or
a course of study.
This agreement, including frequency of meetings... |
| AGRA700 | MFA Graphic Design Practicum Workshop | In this preacticum, students will engage in the
production of a project or series of projects.
Projects are open-ended but are intended to
intersect with both the students' interests and/or
ongoing coursework.
Attendence at all sessions is required. |
| AGRA799 | Independent Study | Permission of Instructor only.
Independent Study is a semester-long agreement
developed between a student and a faculty member
to discuss ongoing work, a particular project, or
a course of study.
This agreement, including frequency of meetings... |
| AHMN300 | Image Archives in Practice | This course receives credit under Topics in Photo
History.
Open to Art School BFA 3 and above. This course
will be open to students at other year levels,
and in other Schools, by Permission of
Instructor.
When artists, or photographers approach an... |
| AHMN456 | Aesthetic Dimension | We will explore the question of what art does
(and how does it) as it is put forth by Herbert
Marcuse in The Aesthetic Dimension. In addition
to closely reading and discussing Marcuse's ideas
we may examine a range of work by artists,
writers and ph... |
| AHMN600 | Image Archives in Practice | Open to Art School MFA. This course
will be open to students at other year levels,
and in other Schools, by Permission of
Instructor.
When artists, or photographers approach an
archive, we are concerned with two activites:
working with existing arc... |
| AHMN656 | Aesthetic Dimension | We will explore the question of what art does
(and how does it) as it is put forth by Herbert
Marcuse in The Aesthetic Dimension. In addition
to closely reading and discussing Marcuse's ideas
we may examine a range of work by artists,
writers and ph... |
| APHM002 | Black & White | Open to Photography and Media Program BFA 1 and
2.
The APHM001 Series is comprised of workshops that
introduce students to the technologies,
techniques and processes that are fundamental to
photography and media-based practice. Topics are
designed to... |
| APHM003 | Color Printing (Analog) | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School BFA students. This workshop provides an introduction to analog color photography, covering film exposure and printing. Students must bring processed color negatives to work with for printing to the... |
| APHM005 | Basic Lighting | Course open to Photo/Media Program only.
The APHM001 Series is comprised of workshops that
introduce students to the technologies,
techniques and processes that are fundamental to
photography and media-based practice. Topics are
designed to provide t... |
| APHM006 | Mural Printing | This workshop is designed to introduce photography and media students to large-scale printing. Both color and black and white will be covered. Students will make large prints from their own negatives. Medium and large-format negatives are encouraged.... |
| APHM007 | HD Video Post Prod. & Sound | Open to the Photography and Media Program only.
The APHM001 Series is comprised of workshops that
introduce students to the technologies,
techniques and processes that are fundamental to
photography and media-based practice. Topics are
designed to pr... |
| APHM008 | Advance Lighting & Portraiture | Open to the Photography and Media Program only.
The APHM001 Series is comprised of workshops that
introduce students to the technologies,
techniques and processes that are fundamental to
photography and media-based practice. Topics are
designed to pr... |
| APHM009 | Lightroom/Photoshop | Lightroom/Photoshop: Digital Work Flows
Open to the Photography and Media Program only.
The APHM001 Series is comprised of workshops that
introduce students to the technologies,
techniques and processes that are fundamental to
photography and media-... |
| APHM011 | Scanning & Photoshop | Open to the Art School only.
The APHM001 Series is comprised of workshops that
introduce students to the technologies,
techniques and processes that are fundamental to
photography and media-based practice. Topics are
designed to provide the skill and... |
| APHM012 | Multimedia Web | Open to the Photography and Media Program only.
The APHM001 Series is comprised of workshops that
introduce students to the technologies,
techniques and processes that are fundamental to
photography and media-based practice. Topics are
designed to pr... |
| APHM013 | Intro to Medium Format & Studio Lighting | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School Photography and Media BFA students. This
practicum is designed to introduce photography and
media students to shooting with medium format
cameras and film, along with studio lighting
techniques that... |
| APHM018 | Alternative Process | This workshop provides an introduction to
cyanotype, Van Dyke brown and gum bichromate
processes. |
| APHM020 | Artist Run Spaces | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School BFA Students. Artist-run spaces are one of
the most important forms of art institution,
allowing artists to shape our art worlds,
establish their own artistic discourse and
criteria, without having... |
| APHM021 | Color Negative Darkroom Printing | This workshop provides an introduction to
traditional chemical analog color photography
work. Covering negative film exposure and darkroom
printing.
The class uses the the color darkroom facilities
in the Photography Lab and the 50 inch color paper... |
| APHM022 | Exhibition Production | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School BFA 4 students. This workshop focuses on
exhibition-making as a form, approaching the
planning of an exhibition with the understanding
that exhibitions have their own languages, forms,
meanings and... |
| APHM028 | DIY Books | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School BFA students. Attendance at all sessions
is required. Making books is an important and
powerful way to make one's artwork live in the
world. Innovative artists use books to create
their own spaces t... |
| APHM029 | Performance and the Camera | This practicum workshop is open to the Institute.
Performing Stories: Camera, Audience, and the Real
In a time where the boundaries between the
"lights, camera, action" side of performance and
the "filter, tag, post" side of performance
dissolve even... |
| APHM031 | Digital Bookmaking/InDesign | The APHM001 Series is comprised of workshops that
introduce students to the technologies,
techniques and processes that are fundamental to
photography and media-based practice. Topics are
designed to provide the skill and know how that
students requi... |
| APHM034 | DSLR Video & Basics of Post-Production | DSLR Video & Basics of Post-production. This
workshop introduces students to the fundamentals
of DSLR video production, camera operation,
lighting, and sound recording. Post-production
(editing, sound design and playback) will be a
large portion of t... |
| APHM035 | Albumen Printing | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School BFA students.
Workshop meets on January 11, 12, 14, 15, and 19
from 6-8:50 p.m. in the Photo Lab. Attendance at
all sessions is required. There is a $70
materials fee for this workshop.
In the age... |
| APHM036 | Digital Production with DSLR Cameras | This workshop is an introduction to digital
production with DSLR cameras, covering both still
image acquisitions and basics of video and sound
capture. Workshop topics will include camera
controls, shooting modes, file formats and
compression, advanc... |
| APHM037 | Lighting Lab I | The goal of Lighting Lab is help students to
choose light sources based upon their creative
needs, considering how the technical side of
photography is also creative, whether in a fine
art context or in other professional settings. It
introduces stud... |
| APHM038 | Digital Capture With DSLRs | Digital Capture: Moving and Still Image with
DSLRs
This workshop is an introduction to digital
production with DSLR cameras, covering both still
image acquisition and basics of video and sound
capture. Workshop topics will include camera
controls, s... |
| APHM039 | Digital Workflow: Photoshop & Lightroom | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School BFA Students in the Photo and Media
Program. This class focuses on the pathways our
digital images take between the camera and their
printing or digital presentation. This includes
the processing of... |
| APHM040 | Digital Photography's Game-Changer | Digital Photography's Game-Changer - High Dynamic
Range (HDR) Photographic Technique:
Advanced workshop teaching the HDR system for
students with a solid grasp of digital
photography. Here we will explore how High
Dynamic Range extends the boundari... |
| APHM041 | Bookbinding Workshop | This workshop will focus on the manual elements of
book binding. Students will be able to utilize the
CalArts print lab and the resources it has to
offer. Students can expect to learn how to fold
and sew signatures of a book, saddle stitch with
stapl... |
| APHM042 | Who Turned Out the Lights? | Using a hybrid of high and low tech approaches we
will focus on the base material of photography:
light. That which gives shape and is shaped, both
signal and signifier. This workshop will focus on
practical solutions and alternative
implementations... |
| APHM043 | Domestic Adventures in Alt Processes | Using alternative processes that require minimal
equipment, students will create photographs at
home. We'll use the sun, light sensitive
materials, and our creativity to make experimental
images.
IMPORTANT: A reimbursable materials kit will
be requir... |
| APHM044 | Visual Diary | We will look at how cell phones (iPhone / Android)
have become visual diaries for artists and the
importance of archiving properly. Students will
learn how to prepare raw files, using photoshop,
for low-cost online printing. |
| APHM045 | Digital Setups and Methods | This course will walk through crucial steps of
establishing a professional digital workflow for
photographers and artists. We will use Capture One
to work on digital darkroom techniques such as
image adjustments, processing, export recipes and
file m... |
| APHM046 | Physical and Virtual Exhibition Design | This workshop will approach exhibition design from
the perspective of the post-COVID art world. We
will look at the various ways exhibitions are
designed for both museums and galleries as well as
in the virtual spaces that pre-existed COVID but
have... |
| APHM047 | Analog Lab Practices Technical Workshop | Analog Lab Practices explores fundamentals of photographic practices for BFA3 and BFA4 Photography and Media students to increase basic and intermediate skills through the use of the Photography Lab. This workshop will overview diverse student intere... |
| APHM048 | Digital Lab: An Introduction Workshop | Digital Lab provides an introduction to navigating
the various digital-photographic imaging pathways
in the Photography Lab. Topics will include
orienting students to the digital production
capabilities of the lab's digital facilities,
using and defi... |
| APHM049 | Color, Black and White Printing | This course will allow students to work on their
projects and the use of the lab. Student can
develop black & white film and print both Black
and white and color analogue prints. |
| APHM050 | Self As Subject | In this workshop, students will produce a cohesive
series of photographs on the theme of
self-as-subject. Student projects may include self
portraits (What counts as a portrait? What
constitutes the self?) as well as loose or
alternative interpretati... |
| APHM051 | Folklore,miracles, Site-Specific Spirits | In this workshop, we'll be working as a type of
haunt hunter. We'll first identify the spirits
that haunt our everyday, examining the multitude
of histories and site-specific spirits that
dictate the institutions we join, the spaces in
which we live.... |
| APHM052 | The Disjunctive Image | With the status of the image destabilized and a
glut of images at our fingertips, disjunctive
images made within and without a camera have
become part of the language of contemporary
photography. This workshop begins with an overview
of various strat... |
| APHM053 | Working From the Concept of "the Meadow" | Taisha Paggett, instructor
Auto-archiving and new meadows of togetherness
Working from the concept of "the meadow" - a
speculative geography of possibility- and
"solitary togetherness," this workshop utilizes
somatic and contemplative practices, map... |
| APHM054 | Serial Photography / Structuralist Film | Serial Photography / Structuralist Film
Static Images, notably those that document the
passage of time, are the foundation of cinematic
art. Students will make serial photographs and
short structuralist films using their magic
phones. |
| APHM055 | Write Your Stakes | How does one, how does an artist script a self? We
will know ourselves and know what we think when we
find the words. This workshop will serve as a
testing ground for each of us to try out modes,
voices, rhythms, structures, and approaches that
enabl... |
| APHM056 | Fashion,fine Art,& Everything Inbetween | This course combines lectures, discussions,
lighting workshops, and other technical
demonstrations to give students hands-on
experience creating portraits in-studio and
on-location. We will talk about photography as
both a commercial practice and art... |
| APHM057 | Alternative Photo Processes: Cyanotype | This course will focus on the experimenting and
investigating the photographic process of
cyanotype.
Students will be introduced to making images in
this slow to react and inexpensive process in
which photo sensitive materials react uniquely to
ultr... |
| APHM058 | Not Obvious Self Portraiture | This course combines lighting workshops, lectures, discussions, and critiques to help students develop a conceptually driven project that expands the definition of self-portraiture within an artistic practice. In addition to traditional portraiture,... |
| APHM059 | Photo Bookmaking | In this workshop, students will design and produce a photo book. The class will briefly cover the history of the artist book, contemporary trends in book design, and the tradition of the photo book. With the aid of readings, discussion, and workshops... |
| APHM060 | Nothing Leaves the Studio w/o a Photo | Through a balanced blend of formal techniques, emphasizing studio lighting, composition, and color theory, students will learn to capture their artworks and exhibitions with precision and panache. The course also covers gonzo iPhone photography and c... |
| APHM061 | Making a Zine DIY & InDesign | This class invites artists to create their work through a more experimental approach. This workshop will instruct the basics of creating and publishing your zine. We will consider zine history, inspiration and process. We will start with handmade zin... |
| APHM062 | Nuts & Bolts | This course will cover hanging and installation ideas and solutions, including lighting, environmental presentation options in the CalArts' galleries. We will think about the best practices to practically and aesthetically install artwork holding in... |
| APHM063 | Record, Edit, and Mix Sound | This is a half semester introductory course, in which students will engage in and learn basic skills to introduce sound elements to their projects. Discussions, lectures, and in class exercises will revolve around topics such as: basic sound design p... |
| APHM100A | View Camera | This workshop provides an introduction to the 4 x
5 with large format film and an emphasis on
exposure and development. |
| APHM100B | Digital Lab: An Introduction Workshop | Digital Lab provides an introduction to navigating
the various digital-photographic imaging pathways
in the Photography Lab. Topics will include
orienting students to the digital production
capabilities of the lab's digital facilities,
using and defi... |
| APHM100C | Basic Lighting | Course open to Photo/Media Program only.
This workshop introduces students to basic
lighting methods, including how to work with
different types of lights, balancing between
their qualities, color temperature and basic
lighting set-ups. |
| APHM101 | Foundation Seminar & Critique | Course open to BFA1 Photo/Media students only.
Two-semester course for all first year
photography and media students. An intensive
introduction to the arts of photography and
media. Basic technical and aesthetic
introduction leads to groundwork for... |
| APHM102 | Foundation Seminar & Critique | Course open to BFA 1 Photo/Media students only.
Two-semester course for all first year
photography and media students. An intensive
introduction to the arts of photography and
media. Basic technical and aesthetic
introduction leads to groundwork fo... |
| APHM103 | New Lab | New Lab is a semester long technical course for
all BFA-1 and BFA-2 transfer students in the
Photography and Media Program. The intent of this
class is to orient incoming students to the
Photography Lab and its production possibilities
as a critical... |
| APHM105 | Analog in the New Lab | Analog in the New Lab: Course open to BFA1
Photo/Media students only. New Lab is a
semester-long class for all BFA-1 and BFA-2
transfer students in the Photography and Media
Program. It is a course that provides the critical
base for making work in t... |
| APHM110A | Beginning Analog Photography B&w, Film | This course will focus on the fundamentals of analog photography. Students will learn the proper function of a 35mm camera and the correct use of light meters, apertures, shutter speeds, and lenses. Students will learn to develop their own black & wh... |
| APHM110B | Advanced Analog | In this course, students will be introduced to the
unique capabilities of large format analog
photography. Students will become proficient in
using both 4x5 view cameras. After producing the
high resolution, carefully composed negatives
typical of la... |
| APHM110C | Video and Sound I | This course offers students a foundation in video
and sound recording, and an exploration of video
art in the contemporary art world. We will focus
on post production including sound design and
color correction, and briefly touch on
installation prep... |
| APHM110D | Video and Sound II | This course offers students a continued
exploration of video and sound production in a
contemporary art context. Students will continue
to work with Adobe PremierePro and ProTools, as
well as learn how to create and present video
installations with v... |
| APHM110E | Building a Book | "Building a Book" will explore how meaning is
built through form and structure of the photo
book. We will approach the book medium through a
historic and contemporary lens while examining
artists who use the medium. This class will
include conversati... |
| APHM110G | Sound Off | This advanced digital media course explores the
continuum between sound
and silence in digital time-based work. Through
screenings, listening
sessions, readings and guest artist visits, we
will think through artists'
strategic implementations of sile... |
| APHM110H | Think Big | Think Big is a semester-long course that provides
students with large-scale analog printing using
traditional darkroom techniques. It is designed to
expand students' knowledge and skills in analog
photographic printing. The goal of this course is
to... |
| APHM110J | Beginning Sound and Video | Beginning Sound and Video is a semester-long technical course for all BFA-1, BFA-2, and transfer students in the Photography and Media Program. The intent of this class is to introduce students to the fundamentals of audio and video production, inclu... |
| APHM199 | Independent Study | Permission of Instructor only.
Independent Study is a semester-long agreement
developed between a student and a faculty member
to discuss ongoing work, a particular project, or
a course of study.
This agreement, including frequency of meetings... |
| APHM201 | UG Seminar | Course open to BFA1 or BFA2 Photo/Media students
only.
A required class for all BFA2 and transfer
Photography and Media students. The class
covers conceptual, historical, and theoretical
topics surrounding photography and media, with an
emphasis on... |
| APHM299 | Independent Study | Permission of Instructor only.
Independent Study is a semester-long agreement
developed between a student and a faculty member
to discuss ongoing work, a particular project, or
a course of study.
This agreement, including frequency of meetings... |
| APHM303 | Color Lab: Darkroom to Digital | Course open to Photo/Media Program only, by
Permission of Instructor only. Not open to BFA1
students.
Color Lab is a semester-long course that provides
students with a basic background in the history,
theory, and materials of color photography.
Emph... |
| APHM304 | Advanced Digital Color | Advanced Digital Color is designed for students
looking to enhance and expand their knowledge and
skills in digital photography, digital imaging
using Photoshop, and digital photographic
printing. The goal of this course is to
understand digital ima... |
| APHM305 | Undergraduate Critique | Open to BFA2, BFA3, and BFA4 Photo/Media
students only. This course may be open to
students at other year levels, and in other
Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
This course presents weekly group discussion and
analysis of student work. Each stude... |
| APHM311L | Intersection of Art and Architecture | Students will choose a site on campus to design
and build (using mostly cast off construction
materials) a temporary structure/installation.
After reviewing and discussing the student design
proposals we will collectively decide on the basic
concept... |
| APHM315 | Grad Critique | Course open to Art School only, by Permission of
Instructor only.
Group discussion and analysis of each student's
work, with critique conducted by the instructor,
visiting artists, and faculty from the School of
Art. Students are expected to present... |
| APHM317 | Digital Bucket Crit | All BFA 2, BFA 3 and BFA 4 students will be
required to present their work to the entire
faculty in an online format. The presentation will
be exactly 5 mintues each. This is a rare
opportunity to engage with the BFA student body
and faculty. You wil... |
| APHM325A | Grad Seminar: Apeshit in the Louvre | Apeshit in the Louvre is a graduate-level reading
seminar that looks at
theories and histories of exhibitions, museums and
galleries, thinking
specifically about the agency or power of the
artist within them. Starting
with ways that artists have inco... |
| APHM325D | Grad Seminar: Show and Tell | Open to BFA students by Permission of Instructor
only.
Since the inception of photography, exhibition
spaces have played an important role for the
medium. Photographic exhibitions initially were
used to present technical accomplishments and
changing... |
| APHM325F | Graduate Seminar | Graduate Seminar: Contemporary Topics in
Photography and Media
This reading and discussion seminar will offer a
survey of current discussions within the field of
photo- and media-based practices. Considering the
shifting roles of our mediums within... |
| APHM325G | Grad Sem: Origins, Copies & Strange... | Origins, Copies and Strange Creations
This seminar will survey broad-based ideas about
originality, narratives of origin, artistic
genius, authorship, photographic reproduction of
art and reality, natural history, religious and
cultish narratives of... |
| APHM325H | Grad Seminar: Talk, Talk, Talk | This graduate seminar takes as its subject matter
the art of the interview and the interview of
the artist. Interviews are both a tool of artists
in contextualizing their work and can be the
artwork itself. By their nature, they are the
realm of di... |
| APHM325J | Film on Photo / Vice Versa | Film on Photography, Photography on Film / Etic
and Emic perception
This is a graduate seminar. We will be looking at
several films and art works that position either
film or photography as a central critical and
cultural agent in contemporary conve... |
| APHM325K | Graduate Seminar: Histories and Presents | This reading and discussion seminar will offer a
survey of critical inquiries within the field of
photography and media-based practices. Considering
the shifting roles of our mediums within our
current political and cultural landscape, we will
start... |
| APHM325L | Graduate Seminar: Heroic Distortions | Grad Seminar: Visual Arts Narrative:Heroic
Distortions
This seminar will examine the characteristics of
heroes in classic narratives through close textual
analysis of literature,films and comic books.
From Hamlet to John Wayne to Black Panther, the... |
| APHM325M | Graduate Seminar: Participant Observer | This is a survey course on photography, film and
video works that are linked to historical and
contemporary trends in Art, Visual Anthropology,
Ethnography, and works of social, political and
personal description. Often aggressive in nature,
deeply... |
| APHM330 | Artist As Writer | Open to Art School BFA 2 and above. This course
may be open to students at other year levels, and
in other Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
ARTIST AS WRITER explores the usage of the
written word to promote ideas, describe concepts,
illuminate... |
| APHM331 | LA Urbanscape | Course not open to BFA1 students. Section 1 open
to Art School only. This course may be open to
students at other year levels, and in other
Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
This course may be open to
students at other year levels, and in other... |
| APHM335 | Moving Pictures League | Open to Art School BFA 2 and above. This course
may be open to students at other year levels, and
in other Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
This course is dedicated to the making of moving
pictures: projects whose defining characteristic
is that... |
| APHM337 | Artists Map: Prisons, Systems, Structure | Despite renewed calls for abolition and criticism
of "mass incarceration," the USA continues to have
the largest prison and jail population in modern
history globally. With a cultural imagination that
is littered with images of imprisonment,
criminal... |
| APHM338 | Video in Space | Open to Art School BFA 2 and above. This course
may be open to students at other year levels, and
in other Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
This class will deal with the exhibition of the
moving image in space. Structured as an open crit
class,... |
| APHM341 | Freeway Joyride | Open to Art School BFA 2 and above. This course
may be open to students at other year levels, and
in other Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
Freeway Joyride: 21st Century Lane-Change will
explore the intricacies of interconnected
communities via... |
| APHM342 | Public Persona/Public Spaces | Open to Art School only. This course will be
open
to students at other year levels, and in other
Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
Public Persona/Public Spaces will require
students to utilize existing public spaces in Los
Angeles, San Fernando... |
| APHM343 | Network Culture | Open to students in the Art School only.
Network Culture
The course will examine, analyze, and interpret
aspects of individual/group focused attention,
mass distraction, the creation/dissemination of
concepts/words/products, exponential growth of
b... |
| APHM344 | The Photographic Book | Open to students in the Art School only.
This course receives credit under Topics in Photo
History.
A stronly revisionist way to approach the history
of photography is to bring photographic
bookmaking into a center stage. Books are
vehicles for compl... |
| APHM345 | Sound and Vision | Sound and Vision: Documenting the Central Valley
This documentary class has a focus on
California's Central Valley, culminating in a
trip to the
area around Bakersfield and a collaborative
project involving sound and pictures. Focusing on
documentar... |
| APHM346 | The Housing Question | The recent development in Boyle Heights has
provoked heated debates, a series of actions and
a large number of public statements and news
coverage on the role of art institutions as a
generator of gentrification. The positions in the
debates went fro... |
| APHM346A | The Housing Question | The recent development in Boyle Heights has
provoked heated debates, a series of actions and
a large number of public statements and news
coverage on the role of art institutions as a
generator of gentrification. The positions in the
debates went fro... |
| APHM346B | The Housing Question | The recent development in Boyle Heights has
provoked heated debates, a series of actions and
a large number of public statements and news
coverage on the role of art institutions as a
generator of gentrification. The positions in the
debates went fro... |
| APHM349 | Photo History in the Field | Advanced Topics in Photo History: Photo History
in the Field
This class is centered on an engagement with the
photography archive of the Tejon Indian Tribe of
Southern California. Taking our photo history and
archive conversations out into the field,... |
| APHM350 | Advanced Topics in Photo Media | Advanced Topics in Photography & Media is a
category of courses which address the expansive
field of photographic and media practice. Topics
or themes are developed yearly by the faculty to
engage historical, theoretical and contemporary
issues that... |
| APHM351 | Post-Production in the Field | This class investigates the possibilities
available to artists in Los Angeles using service
providers. From printers and framers, to
photo-mural installers, to fabricators, foundries,
wall-text specialists, and many more, there is a
whole industry t... |
| APHM352 | TALKING in the field | This upper-level seminar explores the art world through the lens of interviews and professional practice. Students will engage in conversations with curators, gallerists, artists, and filmmakers, gaining insight into the many roles that shape contemp... |
| APHM353 | Photo Media VAL Forum | Students are expected to attend the weekly
lectures. Each student will present an overview of
series in the form of a paper at the end of the
semester.
The Visiitng Artist's Lecture Series engages all
critically and creatively to explores different
m... |
| APHM354 | Changing Time/Zones | The course specifically welcomes students to the
photography and media program that are not able to
join the campus classes in person, have to access
the classes from a remote place, or are new to the
program. Even though everybody is welcome, a
prio... |
| APHM399 | Independent Study | Permission of Instructor only.
Independent Study is a semester-long agreement
developed between a student and a faculty member
to discuss ongoing work, a particular project, or
a course of study.
This agreement, including frequency of meetings... |
| APHM400B | Queer Critque Potluck | Open to Art School BFA2 and above. This course
may be open to students at other year levels, and
in other Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
Critique - Critique courses within the
Photography and Media program center around
critique of student wo... |
| APHM400C | Photo Forms, Off the Wall Critique | This will be a critique-based course, open to any
photography project that takes the form of 'zine,
artist book, album, portfolio, poster, etc, where
we will look at material forms that photography
takes prior to, alongside, and/or in opposition
to t... |
| APHM400D | Moving Between Figurative/Literal Worlds | What does it mean to exist between, with the
understanding that something is about to be. This
course will explore cultural, societal and
political spaces of shifting. We will look at
contemporary artists, with a focus on lens based
practices, situ... |
| APHM400E | Change Everything, Thematic Critique | When scholar-activist Ruth Wilson Gilmore defines
abolition, she says "Abolition requires us to
change one thing, which is everything." This
course will be a laboratory for projects of any
medium that are interested in some form of
social-political c... |
| APHM415 | Critique and Exit | Open to Photography and Media BFA4 only.
This class is required of BFA4 students and is an
intensive seminar. |
| APHM420A | Race and Representation | Open to Art School BFA2 and above. This course
may be open to students at other year levels, and
in other Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
Theory and Contemporary Issues - Theory and
Contemporary Issues courses in the Photography
and Media prog... |
| APHM420J | Envisioning Urban Commons | Looking at the current debates and struggles over
space, including the role of public and private
resources and investment and notions of "the
commons" within them (commonly held land,
resources, goods, shared and not privatized),
this seminar propos... |
| APHM420K | Joy and Leisure | The experiences of those from subjugated
populations are as dynamic and richly layered as
any other group, however the representations and
narratives ascribed to these communities are
oftentimes rooted only in suffering. While pain
and struggle are c... |
| APHM420L | Abolition + Spaces of Dissent | "We are the Ones We are Waiting For: Abolition and
Spaces of Dissent" is an open form class where we
will explore contemporary abolitionist discourse,
pandemic and activist media landscapes, and
momentary spaces for celebration, daydreaming and
disse... |
| APHM420M | Performative Arrangement | This class will look at the photography as a
record of perpetual performance and/or arrangement
of the body. Specifically, we will explore works
that are meant to exist, and/or continue to exist
as an image, a referent to the action which is no
longe... |
| APHM420N | Quasi-Objects (the Ambassador) | This course will be devoted to the establishment
of an interpretive paradigm (the concept of
quasi-objects), and the analysis of a historical
moment (3400 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles,
1920-present).
The "theory of the quasi-object" is introduced... |
| APHM420P | Politics of Portraiture | Everyone wants to be seen but not everyone wants
to be photographed. This is a class that aims to
investigate that paradox. What are the politics of
Seeing and what are the politics of being seen?
What exactly is a portrait. Is it a conversation,
a c... |
| APHM420Q | The Body, the Lens and the Law | How have artists activated their own bodies and
the bodies of others to examine the human
condition and society at large? This class explore
the ways in which artists use the human body to
explore questions of labor, identify, sexuality,
etc. through... |
| APHM420R | Form & Funding | While much is made of artistic freedom, the forms
into which our efforts flow (sculpture, pictures,
performance.) and the containers through which
those forms can circulate legibly as artworks
(museums, markets, the media.) are rather
well-defined. I... |
| APHM420S | Visibility & Authority: AAPI Images | Visibility & Authority: Images of Asian America is
a seminar that examines the politics of
portraiture by focusing on the relationship
between still and moving images, and constructions
of Asian identity in America. Taking an
intersectional and inter... |
| APHM420T | Through an Indigenous Lens | In effort to examine and rebuild relationship with the Land, this course will examine personal, social, and institutional relationships to home, site and land and how they intersect in the work of Indigenous makers. It will address our understanding... |
| APHM440 | Practice Series | Practice Courses within the Photography and Media
program focus on making work and developing the
shape of students' practices. While each course
under this category may offer a particular theme
or subject matter, its primary organization and
outcome... |
| APHM440A | Narrative: Heroic Distortions | Open to Art School BFA2 and above.
This course may be open to
students at other year levels, and in other
Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
Practice Courses within the Photography and Media
program focus on making work and developing the
shape... |
| APHM440B | Fuzzy Pictures | This course receives credit under Topics in Photo
History.
Open to Art School BFA2 and above. This course
may be open to students at other year levels, and
in other Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
Practice Courses within the Photography and Me... |
| APHM440C | Foto and Film | Open to Art School BFA2 and above. This course
may be open to students at other year levels, and
in other Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
Practice Courses within the Photography and Media
program focus on making work and developing the
shape o... |
| APHM440D | Gendered Geographies | Open to Art School BFA2 and above. This course
may be open to students at other year levels, and
in other Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
Practice Courses within the Photography and Media
program focus on making work and developing the
shape o... |
| APHM440E | 10 Minutes Or Less | Open to Art School BFA2 and above. This course
may be open to students at other year levels, and
in other Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
Practice Courses within the Photography and Media
program focus on making work and developing the
shape o... |
| APHM440F | Landscape: The Wilderness | Open to Art School BFA2 and above. This course
may be open to students at other year levels, and
in other Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
Practice Courses within the Photography and Media
program focus on making work and developing the
shape o... |
| APHM440G | Landscape: The Garden | Open to Art School BFA2 and above. This course
may be open to students at other year levels, and
in other Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
Practice Courses within the Photography and Media
program focus on making work and developing the
shape o... |
| APHM440H | Participant Observer | This course receives credit under Topics in Photo
History.
Open to Art School BFA2 and above. This course
may be open to students at other year levels, and
in other Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
Practice Courses within the Photography and Me... |
| APHM440K | Photo Idea: Exhibition | Practice Courses within the Photography and Media
program focus on making work and developing the
shape of students' practices. While each course
under this category may offer a particular theme
or subject matter, its primary organization and
outcome... |
| APHM440L | Photo Idea: Critique/R&D Lab Work | This course is open to Art School BFA2 and above.
Also open to students in other schools by
permission of instructor.
Photo Idea: Critique / R&D is a pre-studio
production-based photography
project and development course. The goals of this
class are... |
| APHM440S | Subject & Image: Portrait Lab | Open to Art School BFA 3 and above. This course
may be open to students at other year levels, and
in other Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
Examination of the pictorial and socially
interactive basis of portraiture. Includes
comparisons with p... |
| APHM440V | Image and Text | Open to Art School BFA2 and above. This course
may be open to students at other year levels, and
in other Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
This studio course will examine formal and
conceptual strategies for combining image and
text. In order... |
| APHM440W | It's a Family Affair | Open to the Art School BFA2 and above. This
course may be open to students at other year
levels, and in other Schools, by Permission of
Instructor.
Drawing upon the myths & experiences of family in
Western society, this class will take up
represent... |
| APHM440X | Representation of Labor & Work | Open to Art School BFA 2 and above.
This course may be open to students at other year
levels, and in other Schools, by Permission of
Instructor.
Representation of Labor and Work (Reading Group)
The starting point of this course was a critique
in... |
| APHM441C | Film and Foto Workshop | FILM AND FOTO WORKSHOP
Open to BFA 3 and above, MFA candidates.
This course may be open to students in other
Schools or by Permission of Instructor.
FILM AND FOTO WORKSHOP is a short course with the
main focus being on questions arising in the use... |
| APHM441I | The Self and Others | The Self and Others
The notion of intimacy, the use of the body, and
the exploration of the self through various
creative contexts has always been a point of
return in contemporary art practices. In this
class, we focus on the toughest type of
obser... |
| APHM441K | Broken Windows | Broken Windows is an observation of contemporary
shifts, regressions and transformations in
photographic representation at this moment.
Concerns over technological change and ubiquity
in photography has aided in a perspectival
transition from more co... |
| APHM441M | Photgenic: Performance-for-Camera | Photogenic: Performance-for Camera is a course
for those interested in exploring liveness,
esoteric, narrative dimensions of their work.
Throughout the course we'll look at examples of
iconic performance documentation, and also look
at other sources... |
| APHM441N | Who Is This America? | This course receives credit under Topics in Photo
History.
In a time of a resurgent nationalism throughout
Western countries, rooted in expressions of
racial and ethnic exclusion, this will be a
laboratory for projects that take up questions of
natio... |
| APHM441O | Photography, Subject and Studio | Over the semester students will develop a
photo-based project rooted in 1) portraiture and
2) the studio. We will use the dynamics of
portraiture to explore the photographer's studio
as a site of social, political, aesthetic and
material exchange. Th... |
| APHM441P | Make Your Own Book | Practice: Photographic Book - Make Your Own Book
Books are vehicles for complex structures of
sustained photographic meaning. In this sense,
books can provide an antidote to a fragmentary,
inattentive and fashion-driven photographic
culture. We will... |
| APHM441Q | Subject | This course is centered around each student's
development of a photo-based project on the topic
of the "subject in portraiture" or
"representation of the body." No pre-concieved
project is required at the beginning of the
semester, and we will work a... |
| APHM441R | Finders & Keepers: Collecting | "To collect photographs is to collect the world."
states Susan Sontag, in her seminal essay On
Photography. As photographers catalog, collect,
appropriate the image from the continuous stream
of daily life, they turn the things photographed
into ot... |
| APHM441S | From Silence Into Action: Artist Writing | "[A]nd what I most regretted were my silences,"
writes Audre Lorde in the essay from which this
course borrows its title. Asking what is at stake
in our writing, she continues, "[o]f what had I
ever been afraid?" Whether we write as ourselves
or in a... |
| APHM441T | Object, Place, Memory | Using the camera as a tool for excavation, we will
explore our unique perspectives, memories and
experiences in order to situate ourselves in the
image making process and the world. Specifically
working to explore our relationship to objects, we
will... |
| APHM441U | Body, Space, and the Anti-Document | Considering the relationship of the camera and
documentation to live and body-based art, this
course presents a critical survey of contemporary
sculpture, installation, and performance as
understood through its written, photographic,
video, and/or au... |
| APHM441V | In the Light | This class will look at light as a concept, and
explore its intimate involvement with the
photographic medium. We will work through ideas of
light and darkness, in their framing culturally,
socially, historically, theoretically, and within
the produc... |
| APHM441W | Experimental Documentary | Through readings, screenings and discussion we
will explore artists' strategies for engaging
truth claims in video. We will look closely at
ways experimental documentaries use speculative
fiction, embodied practices, gossip, and
journalistic techniqu... |
| APHM441X | IDEA Course - Street Engagements | STREET ENGAGEMENTS will introduce ideas related to injecting the subject of social, environmental, economic, cultural, and visual justice. The subject of personal and social activism will be discussed and referenced to particular historic points of i... |
| APHM441Y | Private matters, Public Spaces | This performance-based class takes on the task of creating and documenting performances that bring private experiences into the public gaze and discourse. Together we survey different tactics available to index ephemeral gestures, bodily experiences,... |
| APHM497 | BFA 4 Independent Studio | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School BFA students. Students will work on
independent projects in their studios with the
goal of realizing their mid-residency and final
exhibitions. Productive conversations with peers
and faculty will c... |
| APHM499 | Independent Study | Permission of Instructor only.
Independent Study is a semester-long agreement
developed between a student and a faculty member
to discuss ongoing work, a particular project, or
a course of study.
This agreement, including frequency of meetings... |
| APHM500A | View Camera | This workshop provides an introduction to the 4 x
5 with large format film and an emphasis on
exposure and development. |
| APHM500B | Digital Lab: An Introduction Workshop | Digital Lab provides an introduction to navigating
the various digital-photographic imaging pathways
in the Photography Lab. Topics will include
orienting students to the digital production
capabilities of the lab's digital facilities,
using and defi... |
| APHM500C | Basic Lighting | Course open to Photo/Media Program only.
This workshop introduces students to basic
lighting methods, including how to work with
different types of lights, balancing between
their qualities, color temperature and basic
lighting set-ups. |
| APHM503 | Color Lab: Darkroom to Digital | Course open to Photo/Media Program only.
Color Lab is a semester-long course that provides
students with a basic background in the history,
theory, and materials of color photography.
Emphasis is placed on navigating the transitions
between traditio... |
| APHM504 | Advanced Digital Color | Advanced Digital Color is designed for students
looking to enhance and expand their knowledge and
skills in digital photography, digital imaging
using Photoshop, and digital photographic
printing. The goal of this course is to
understand digital ima... |
| APHM515 | Grad Critique | Open to Photography and Media MFA students only.
This course may be open to students at other year
levels, and in other Schools, by Permission of
Instructor.
Group discussion and analysis of each student's
work, with critique conducted by the instruc... |
| APHM517 | MFA1 Bucket Crit | MFA 1 students will be visited by the entire
regular faculty and FT vistiting faculty for a
studio visit at the end of their first term. The
visit will be devoted to dialogue around their
first semester and the art work they have made.
Students are e... |
| APHM520T | Through an Indigenous Lens | In effort to examine and rebuild relationship with the Land, this course will examine personal, social, and institutional relationships to home, site and land and how they intersect in the work of Indigenous makers. It will address our understanding... |
| APHM525A | Grad Seminar: Apeshit in the Louvre | Apeshit in the Louvre is a graduate-level reading
seminar that looks at
theories and histories of exhibitions, museums and
galleries, thinking
specifically about the agency or power of the
artist within them. Starting
with ways that artists have inco... |
| APHM525D | Grad Seminar: Show and Tell | Open to students in the Art School only.
Since the inception of photography, exhibition
spaces have played an important role for the
medium. Photographic exhibitions initially were
used to present technical accomplishments and
changing parameters of... |
| APHM525E | Grad Seminar: Photography Theories 2016 | Open to students in the Art School only.
Using two recent texts; 24/7 by Jonathan Crary
and The Art of Cruelty by Maggie Nelson to ground
us in te present moment, Concentrating primarily
on texts recently published, the seminar shall
collectively re... |
| APHM525F | Graduate Seminar | Graduate Seminar: Contemporary Topics in
Photography and Media
This reading and discussion seminar will offer a
survey of current discussions within the field of
photo- and media-based practices. Considering the
shifting roles of our mediums within... |
| APHM525G | Grad Sem: Origins, Copies & Strange... | Origins, Copies and Strange Creations
This seminar will survey broad-based ideas about
originality, narratives of origin, artistic
genius, authorship, photographic reproduction of
art and reality, natural history, religious and
cultish narratives of... |
| APHM525H | Grad Seminar: Talk, Talk, Talk | This graduate seminar takes as its subject matter
the art of the interview and the interview of
the artist. Interviews are both a tool of artists
in contextualizing their work and can be the
artwork itself. By their nature, they are the
realm of di... |
| APHM525J | Film on Photo / Vice Versa | Film on Photography, Photography on Film / Etic
and Emic perception
This is a graduate seminar. We will be looking at
several films and art works that position either
film or photography as a central critical and
cultural agent in contemporary conve... |
| APHM525K | Graduate Seminar: Histories and Presents | This reading and discussion seminar will offer a
survey of critical inquiries within the field of
photography and media-based practices. Considering
the shifting roles of our mediums within our
current political and cultural landscape, we will
start... |
| APHM525L | Graduate Seminar: Heroic Distortions | Grad Seminar: Visual Arts Narrative:Heroic
Distortions
This seminar will examine the characteristics of
heroes in classic narratives through close textual
analysis of literature,films and comic books.
From Hamlet to John Wayne to Black Panther, the... |
| APHM525M | Graduate Seminar: Participant Observer | This is a survey course on photography, film and
video works that are linked to historical and
contemporary trends in Art, Visual Anthropology,
Ethnography, and works of social, political and
personal description. Often aggressive in nature,
deeply... |
| APHM530 | Artist As Writer | Open to Art School only. This course may be open
to students at other year levels, and in other
Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
ARTIST AS WRITER explores the usage of the
written word to promote ideas, describe concepts,
illuminate issues, and... |
| APHM531 | LA Urbanscape | Open to Art School only. This course
may be open to students at other year levels, and
in other Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
LA Urbanscape: Image, Words & Acts. This course
will explore the interrelation between various
social, cultural, e... |
| APHM535 | Moving Pictures League | Open to the Art School only. This course may be
open to students at other year levels, and in
other Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
This course is dedicated to the making of moving
pictures: projects whose defining characteristic
is that they m... |
| APHM537 | Artists Map: Prisons, Systems, Structure | Despite renewed calls for abolition and criticism
of "mass incarceration," the USA continues to have
the largest prison and jail population in modern
history globally. With a cultural imagination that
is littered with images of imprisonment,
criminal... |
| APHM538 | Video in Space | Open to the Art School only. This course may be
open to students at other year levels, and in
other Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
This class will deal with the exhibition of the
moving image in space. Structured as an open crit
class, this c... |
| APHM541 | Freeway Joyride | Open to the Art School only. This course may be
open to students at other year levels, and in
other Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
Freeway Joyride: 21st Century Lane-Change will
explore the intricacies of interconnected
communities via the So... |
| APHM542 | Public Persona/Public Spaces | Open to the Art School only. This course may be
open to students at other year levels, and in
other Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
Public Persona/Public Spaces will require
students to utilize existing public spaces in Los
Angeles, San Fernan... |
| APHM543 | Network Culture | Open to students in the Art School only.
Network Culture
The course will examine, analyze, and interpret
aspects of individual/group focused attention,
mass distraction, the creation/dissemination of
concepts/words/products, exponential growth of
b... |
| APHM544 | The Photographic Book | Open to students in the Art School only.
A stronly revisionist way to approach the history
of photography is to bring photographic
bookmaking into a center stage. Books are
vehicles for complex structures of sustained
photographic meaning. In this s... |
| APHM545 | Sound and Vision | Sound and Vision: Documenting the Central Valley
This documentary class has a focus on
California's Central Valley, culminating in a
trip to the
area around Bakersfield and a collaborative
project involving sound and pictures. Focusing on
documentar... |
| APHM546 | The Housing Question | The recent development in Boyle Heights has
provoked heated debates, a series of actions and
a large number of public statements and news
coverage on the role of art institutions as a
generator of gentrification. The positions in the
debates went fro... |
| APHM546A | The Housing Question | The recent development in Boyle Heights has
provoked heated debates, a series of actions and
a large number of public statements and news
coverage on the role of art institutions as a
generator of gentrification. The positions in the
debates went fro... |
| APHM546B | The Housing Question | The recent development in Boyle Heights has
provoked heated debates, a series of actions and
a large number of public statements and news
coverage on the role of art institutions as a
generator of gentrification. The positions in the
debates went fro... |
| APHM549 | Photo History in the Field | Advanced Topics in Photo History: Photo History
in the Field
This class is centered on an engagement with the
photography archive of the Tejon Indian Tribe of
Southern California. Taking our photo history and
archive conversations out into the field,... |
| APHM551 | Post-Production in the Field | This class investigates the possibilities
available to artists in Los Angeles using service
providers. From printers and framers, to
photo-mural installers, to fabricators, foundries,
wall-text specialists, and many more, there is a
whole industry t... |
| APHM552 | TALKING in the field | This upper level seminar class combines a focus on
interviews with a wider picture of what life in
the art world entails. The class will feature
discussions with international curators, gallery
directors, artists, filmmakers, architects, etc.
We wil... |
| APHM553 | Photo Media VAL Forum | Students are expected to attend the weekly
lectures. Each student will present an overview of
series in the form of a paper at the end of the
semester.
The Visiitng Artist's Lecture Series engages all
critically and creatively to explores different
m... |
| APHM554 | Changing Time/Zones | The course specifically welcomes students to the
photography and media program that are not able to
join the campus classes in person, have to access
the classes from a remote place, or are new to the
program. Even though everybody is welcome, a
prio... |
| APHM599 | Independent Study | Permission of Instructor only.
Independent Study is a semester-long agreement
developed between a student and a faculty member
to discuss ongoing work, a particular project, or
a course of study.
This agreement, including frequency of meetings... |
| APHM600 | Critique Series | Critique - Critique courses within the
Photography and Media program center around
critique of student work, to offer students
critical reception to their projects, while
cultivating tools for critical dialogue among the
class at large, including voc... |
| APHM600B | Queer Critque Potluck | Open to Art School only. This course may be open
to students at other year levels, and in other
Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
Critique - Critique courses within the
Photography and Media program center around
critique of student work, to off... |
| APHM600C | Photo Forms, Off the Wall Critique | This will be a critique-based course, open to any
photography project that takes the form of 'zine,
artist book, album, portfolio, poster, etc, where
we will look at material forms that photography
takes prior to, alongside, and/or in opposition
to t... |
| APHM600D | Moving Between Figurative/Literal Worlds | What does it mean to exist between, with the
understanding that something is about to be. This
course will explore cultural, societal and
political spaces of shifting. We will look at
contemporary artists, with a focus on lens based
practices, situ... |
| APHM600E | Change Everything, Thematic Critique | When scholar-activist Ruth Wilson Gilmore defines
abolition, she says "Abolition requires us to
change one thing, which is everything." This
course will be a laboratory for projects of any
medium that are interested in some form of
social-political c... |
| APHM610A | Beginning Analog Photography B&w, Film | This course will focus on the fundamentals of analog photography. Students will learn the proper function of a 35mm camera and the correct use of light meters, apertures, shutter speeds, and lenses. Students will learn to develop their own black & wh... |
| APHM610B | Advanced Analog | In this course, students will be introduced to the
unique capabilities of large format analog
photography. Students will become proficient in
using both 4x5 view cameras. After producing the
high resolution, carefully composed negatives
typical of la... |
| APHM610C | Video and Sound I | This course offers students a foundation in video
and sound recording, and
an exploration of video art in the contemporary
art world. We will focus on
post production including sound design and color
correction, and briefly
touch on installation prep... |
| APHM610D | Video and Sound II | This course offers students a continued
exploration of video and sound production in a
contemporary art context. Students will continue
to work with Adobe PremierePro and ProTools, as
well as learn how to create and present video
installations with v... |
| APHM610E | Building a Book | "Building a Book" will explore how meaning is
built through form and structure of the photo
book. We will approach the book medium through a
historic and contemporary lens while examining
artists who use the medium. This class will
include conversati... |
| APHM610G | Sound Off | This advanced digital media course explores the
continuum between sound
and silence in digital time-based work. Through
screenings, listening
sessions, readings and guest artist visits, we
will think through artists'
strategic implementations of sile... |
| APHM610H | Think Big | Think Big is a semester-long course that provides
students with large-scale analog printing using
traditional darkroom techniques. It is designed to
expand students' knowledge and skills in analog
photographic printing. The goal of this course is
to... |
| APHM620A | Race and Representation | Theory and Contemporary Issues - Theory and
Contemporary Issues courses in the Photography
and Media program cover a range of topics that
are key to understanding the contemporary
debates, histories and movements that shape
today's fields of photogra... |
| APHM620J | Envisioning Urban Commons | Looking at the current debates and struggles over
space, including the role of public and private
resources and investment and notions of "the
commons" within them (commonly held land,
resources, goods, shared and not privatized),
this seminar propos... |
| APHM620K | Joy and Leisure | The experiences of those from subjugated
populations are as dynamic and richly layered as
any other group, however the representations and
narratives ascribed to these communities are
oftentimes rooted only in suffering. While pain
and struggle are c... |
| APHM620L | Abolition + Spaces of Dissent | "We are the Ones We are Waiting For: Abolition and
Spaces of Dissent" is an open form class where we
will explore contemporary abolitionist discourse,
pandemic and activist media landscapes, and
momentary spaces for celebration, daydreaming and
disse... |
| APHM620M | Performative Arrangement | This class will look at the photography as a
record of perpetual performance and/or arrangement
of the body. Specifically, we will explore works
that are meant to exist, and/or continue to exist
as an image, a referent to the action which is no
longe... |
| APHM620N | Quasi-Objects (the Ambassador) | This course will be devoted to the establishment
of an interpretive paradigm (the concept of
quasi-objects), and the analysis of a historical
moment (3400 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles,
1920-present).
The "theory of the quasi-object" is introduced... |
| APHM620P | Politics of Portraiture | Everyone wants to be seen but not everyone wants
to be photographed. This is a class that aims to
investigate that paradox. What are the politics of
Seeing and what are the politics of being seen?
What exactly is a portrait. Is it a conversation,
a c... |
| APHM620Q | The Body, the Lens and the Law | How have artists activated their own bodies and
the bodies of others to examine the human
condition and society at large? This class explore
the ways in which artists use the human body to
explore questions of labor, identify, sexuality,
etc. through... |
| APHM620R | Form & Funding | While much is made of artistic freedom, the forms
into which our efforts flow (sculpture, pictures,
performance.) and the containers through which
those forms can circulate legibly as artworks
(museums, markets, the media.) are rather
well-defined. I... |
| APHM620S | Visibility & Authority: AAPI Images | Visibility & Authority: Images of Asian America is
a seminar that examines the politics of
portraiture by focusing on the relationship
between still and moving images, and constructions
of Asian identity in America. Taking an
intersectional and inter... |
| APHM620T | Through an Indigenous Lens | In effort to examine and rebuild relationship with the Land, this course will examine personal, social, and institutional relationships to home, site and land and how they intersect in the work of Indigenous makers. It will address our understanding... |
| APHM640A | Narrative: Heroic Distortions | Open to Art School only. This course may be open
to students at other year levels, and in other
Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
Practice Courses within the Photography and Media
program focus on making work and developing the
shape of students'... |
| APHM640B | Fuzzy Pictures | Open to Art School only. This course may be open
to students at other year levels, and in other
Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
Practice Courses within the Photography and Media
program focus on making work and developing the
shape of students... |
| APHM640C | Foto and Film | Open to the Art School only. This course may be
open to students at other year levels, and in
other Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
Practice Courses within the Photography and Media
program focus on making work and developing the
shape of stud... |
| APHM640D | Gendered Geographies | Open to Art School only. This course may be open
to students at other year levels, and in other
Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
Practice Courses within the Photography and Media
program focus on making work and developing the
shape of students... |
| APHM640E | 10 Minutes Or Less | Open to Art School only. This course may be open
to students at other year levels, and in other
Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
Practice Courses within the Photography and Media
program focus on making work and developing the
shape of students... |
| APHM640F | Landscape: The Wilderness | Open to Art School only. This course may be open
to students at other year levels, and in other
Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
Practice Courses within the Photography and Media
program focus on making work and developing the
shape of students... |
| APHM640G | Landscape: The Garden | Open to the Art School only. This course may be
open to students at other year levels, and in
other Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
Practice Courses within the Photography and Media
program focus on making work and developing the
shape of stud... |
| APHM640H | Participant Observer | Open to Art School only. This course may be open
to students at other year levels, and in other
Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
Practice Courses within the Photography and Media
program focus on making work and developing the
shape of students... |
| APHM640K | Photo Idea: Exhibition | Open to Art School only. This course may be open
to students at other year levels, and in other
Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
Practice Courses within the Photography and Media
program focus on making work and developing the
shape of students... |
| APHM640L | Photo Idea: Critique/R&D Lab Work | This course is open to Art School BFA2 and above.
Also open to students in other schools by
permission of instructor.
Photo Idea: Critique / R&D is a pre-studio
production-based photography
project and development course. The goals of this
class are... |
| APHM640S | Subject & Image: Portrait Lab | Open to the Art School only. This course may be
open to students at other year levels, and in
other Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
Examination of the pictorial and socially
interactive basis of portraiture. Includes
comparisons with painting... |
| APHM640V | Image and Text | Open to the Art School only. This course may be
open to students at other year levels, and in
other Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
This studio course will examine formal and
conceptual strategies for combining image and
text. In order to con... |
| APHM640W | It's a Family Affair | Open to the Art School only. This course may be
open to students at other year levels, and in
other Schools, by Permission of Instructor.
Drawing upon the myths & experiences of family in
Western society, this class will take up
representations of t... |
| APHM640X | Representation of Labor & Work | Open to Art School BFA 2 and above.
This course may be open to students at other year
levels, and in other Schools, by Permission of
Instructor.
Representation of Labor and Work (Reading Group)
The starting point of this course was a critique
in f... |
| APHM641 | Practice Series | Practice Courses within the Photography and Media
program focus on making work and developing the
shape of students' practices. While each course
under this category may offer a particular theme
or subject matter, its primary organization and
outcome... |
| APHM641C | Film and Foto Workshop | FILM AND FOTO WORKSHOP
Open to BFA 3 and above, MFA candidates.
This course may be open to students in other
Schools or by Permission of Instructor.
FILM AND FOTO WORKSHOP is a short course with the
main focus being on questions arising in the use... |
| APHM641I | The Self and Others | The Self and Others
The notion of intimacy, the use of the body, and
the exploration of the self through various
creative contexts has always been a point of
return in contemporary art practices. In this
class, we focus on the toughest type of
obser... |
| APHM641K | Broken Windows | Broken Windows is an observation of contemporary
shifts, regressions and transformations in
photographic representation at this moment.
Concerns over technological change and ubiquity
in photography has aided in a perspectival
transition from more co... |
| APHM641M | Photgenic: Performance-for-Camera | Photogenic: Performance-for Camera is a course
for those interested in exploring liveness,
esoteric, narrative dimensions of their work.
Throughout the course we'll look at examples of
iconic performance documentation, and also look
at other sources... |
| APHM641N | Who Is This America? | In a time of a resurgent nationalism throughout
Western countries, rooted in expressions of
racial and ethnic exclusion, this will be a
laboratory for projects that take up questions of
national identity, the state and globalization -
including the m... |
| APHM641O | Photography, Subject and Studio | Over the semester students will develop a
photo-based project rooted in 1) portraiture and
2) the studio. We will use the dynamics of
portraiture to explore the photographer's studio
as a site of social, political, aesthetic and
material exchange. Th... |
| APHM641P | Make Your Own Book | Practice: Photographic Book - Make Your Own Book
Books are vehicles for complex structures of
sustained photographic meaning. In this sense,
books can provide an antidote to a fragmentary,
inattentive and fashion-driven photographic
culture. We will... |
| APHM641R | Finders & Keepers: Collecting | "To collect photographs is to collect the world."
states Susan Sontag, in her seminal essay On
Photography. As photographers catalog, collect,
appropriate the image from the continuous stream
of daily life, they turn the things photographed
into ot... |
| APHM641S | From Silence Into Action: Artist Writing | "[A]nd what I most regretted were my silences,"
writes Audre Lorde in the essay from which this
course borrows its title. Asking what is at stake
in our writing, she continues, "[o]f what had I
ever been afraid?" Whether we write as ourselves
or in a... |
| APHM641T | Object, Place, Memory | Using the camera as a tool for excavation, we will
explore our unique perspectives, memories and
experiences in order to situate ourselves in the
image making process and the world. Specifically
working to explore our relationship to objects, we
will... |
| APHM641U | Body, Space, and the Anti-Document | Considering the relationship of the camera and
documentation to live and body-based art, this
course presents a critical survey of contemporary
sculpture, installation, and performance as
understood through its written, photographic,
video, and/or au... |
| APHM641V | In the Light | This class will look at light as a concept, and
explore its intimate involvement with the
photographic medium. We will work through ideas of
light and darkness, in their framing culturally,
socially, historically, theoretically, and within
the produc... |
| APHM641W | Experimental Documentary | Through readings, screenings and discussion we
will explore artists' strategies for engaging
truth claims in video. We will look closely at
ways experimental documentaries use speculative
fiction, embodied practices, gossip, and
journalistic techniqu... |
| APHM641X | IDEA Course - Street Engagements | STREET ENGAGEMENTS will introduce ideas related to injecting the subject of social, environmental, economic, cultural, and visual justice. The subject of personal and social activism will be discussed and referenced to particular historic points of i... |
| APHM641Y | same | This performance-based class takes on the task of creating and documenting performances that bring private experiences into the public gaze and discourse. Together we survey different tactics available to index ephemeral gestures, bodily experiences,... |
| APHM650 | Advanced Topics in Photo Media | Advanced Topics in Photography & Media is a
category of courses which address the expansive
field of photographic and media practice. Topics
or themes are developed yearly by the faculty to
engage historical, theoretical and contemporary
issues that... |
| APHM661Q | Subject | This course is centered around each student's
development of a photo-based project on the topic
of the "subject in portraiture" or
"representation of the body." No pre-concieved
project is required at the beginning of the
semester, and we will work a... |
| APHM699 | Independent Study | Permission of Instructor only.
Independent Study is a semester-long agreement
developed between a student and a faculty member
to discuss ongoing work, a particular project, or
a course of study.
This agreement, including frequency of meetings... |
| APHM700 | MFA Independent Studio | This practicum workshop is restricted to Art
School MFA students in the Photography and Media
program. Students will work on independent
projects with the goal of realizing their
mid-residency and final exhibitions. Productive
conversations with peer... |
| APHM702 | Black & White | The APHM001 Series is comprised of workshops that
introduce students to the technologies,
techniques and processes that are fundamental to
photography and media-based practice. Topics are
designed to provide the skill and know how that
students requi... |
| APHM705 | Basic Lighting | Course open to Photo/Media Program only.
The APHM001 Series is comprised of workshops that
introduce students to the technologies,
techniques and processes that are fundamental to
photography and media-based practice. Topics are
designed to provide t... |
| APHM706 | Mural Printing | This workshop is designed to introduce photography and media students to large-scale printing. Both color and black and white will be covered. Students will make large prints from their own negatives. Medium and large-format negatives are encouraged.... |
| APHM707 | HD Video Post Prod. & Sound | The APHM001 Series is comprised of workshops that
introduce students to the technologies,
techniques and processes that are fundamental to
photography and media-based practice. Topics are
designed to provide the skill and know how that
students requi... |
| APHM708 | Advance Lighting & Portraiture | The APHM001 Series is comprised of workshops that
introduce students to the technologies,
techniques and processes that are fundamental to
photography and media-based practice. Topics are
designed to provide the skill and know how that
students requi... |
| APHM709 | Intro to Digital Post-Process | The APHM001 Series is comprised of workshops that
introduce students to the technologies,
techniques and processes that are fundamental to
photography and media-based practice. Topics are
designed to provide the skill and know how that
students requi... |
| APHM711 | Scanning & Photoshop | This workshop provides an introduction to Adobe
Photoshop software and flatbed scanning. The
coursework includes utilizing scanning techniques
for both transmissive and reflective materials,
using and defining digital imaging and retouching
terms, a... |
| APHM712 | Multimedia Web | The APHM001 Series is comprised of workshops that
introduce students to the technologies,
techniques and processes that are fundamental to
photography and media-based practice. Topics are
designed to provide the skill and know how that
students requi... |
| APHM718 | Alternative Process | Course open to Photo/Media Program only.
The APHM001 Series is comprised of workshops that
introduce students to the technologies,
techniques and processes that are fundamental to
photography and media-based practice. Topics are
designed to provide t... |
| APHM721 | Color Negative Darkroom Printing | This workshop provides an introduction to
traditional chemical analog color photography
work. Covering negative film exposure and darkroom
printing.
The class uses the the color darkroom facilities
in the Photography Lab and the 50 inch color paper... |
| APHM731 | Digital Bookmaking/InDesign | The APHM001 Series is comprised of workshops that
introduce students to the technologies,
techniques and processes that are fundamental to
photography and media-based practice. Topics are
designed to provide the skill and know how that
students requi... |
| APHM734 | DSLR Video & Basics of Post-Production | This workshop introduces students to the
fundamentals of DSLR video production (camera
operation, lighting and sound techniques) and
post-production (editing, sound design and
playback). It serves as an overview of basic
technical skills and principl... |
| APHM736 | Digital Production with DSLR Cameras | This workshop is an introduction to digital
production with DSLR cameras, covering both still
image acquisitions and basics of video and sound
capture. Workshop topics will include camera
controls, shooting modes, file formats and
compression, advanc... |
| APHM737 | Lighting Lab I | The goal of Lighting Lab is help students to
choose light sources based upon their creative
needs, considering how the technical side of
photography is also creative, whether in a fine
art context or in other professional settings. It
introduces stud... |
| APHM738 | Digital Capture with DSLRs | Digital Capture: Moving and Still Image with
DSLRs
This workshop is an introduction to digital
production with DSLR cameras, covering both still
image acquisition and basics of video and sound
capture. Workshop topics will include camera
controls, s... |
| APHM740 | Digital Photography's Game-Changer | Digital Photography's Game-Changer - High Dynamic
Range (HDR) Photographic Technique:
Advanced workshop teaching the HDR system for
students with a solid grasp of digital
photography. Here we will explore how High
Dynamic Range extends the boundari... |
| APHM741 | Bookbinding Workshop | This workshop will focus on the manual elements of
book binding. Students will be able to utilize the
CalArts print lab and the resources it has to
offer. Students can expect to learn how to fold
and sew signatures of a book, saddle stitch with
stapl... |
| APHM746 | Physical and Virtual Exhibition Design | This workshop will approach exhibition design from
the perspective of the post-COVID art world. We
will look at the various ways exhibitions are
designed for both museums and galleries as well as
in the virtual spaces that pre-existed COVID but
have... |
| APHM748 | Digital Lab: An Introduction Workshop | Digital Lab provides an introduction to navigating
the various digital-photographic imaging pathways
in the Photography Lab. Topics will include
orienting students to the digital production
capabilities of the lab's digital facilities,
using and defi... |
| APHM749 | Color, Black and White Printing | This course will allow students to work on their
projects and the use of the lab. Student can
develop black & white film and print both Black
and white and color analogue prints. |
| APHM755 | Write Your Stakes | How does one, how does an artist script a self? We
will know ourselves and know what we think when we
find the words. This workshop will serve as a
testing ground for each of us to try out modes,
voices, rhythms, structures, and approaches that
enabl... |
| APHM756 | Fashion,fine Art,& Everything Inbetween | This course combines lectures, discussions,
lighting workshops, and other technical
demonstrations to give students hands-on
experience creating portraits in-studio and
on-location. We will talk about photography as
both a commercial practice and art... |
| APHM758 | Not Obvious Self Portraiture | This course combines lighting workshops, lectures, discussions, and critiques to help students develop a conceptually driven project that expands the definition of self-portraiture within an artistic practice. In addition to traditional portraiture,... |
| APHM759 | Photo Bookmaking | In this workshop, students will design and produce a photo book. The class will briefly cover the history of the artist book, contemporary trends in book design, and the tradition of the photo book. With the aid of readings, discussion, and workshops... |
| APHM763 | Record, Edit, and Mix Sound | This is a half semester introductory course, in which students will engage in and learn basic skills to introduce sound elements to their projects. Discussions, lectures, and in class exercises will revolve around topics such as: basic sound design p... |
| APHM799 | Independent Study | Permission of Instructor only.
Independent Study is a semester-long agreement
developed between a student and a faculty member
to discuss ongoing work, a particular project, or
a course of study.
This agreement, including frequency of meetings... |
| ASPL100 | Visiting Artist Lecture Forum | Visiting Artist Lecture Forum is a critical and
reflective class that runs in parallel to the Paul
Brach Visiting Artist Lecture Series (VALS). The
class meets weekly. In conjunction with the VALS
lectures, the course prepares student to research
th... |
| ASPL500 | Visiting Artist Lecture Forum | Visiting Artist Lecture Forum is a critical and
reflective class that runs in parallel to the Paul
Brach Visiting Artist Lecture Series (VALS). The
class meets weekly. In conjunction with the VALS
lectures, the course prepares student to research
th... |
| ATEK199 | Independent Study | Permission of Instructor only.
Independent Study is a semester-long agreement
developed between a student and a faculty member
to discuss ongoing work, a particular project, or
a course of study.
This agreement, including frequency of meetings... |
| ATEK299 | Independent Study | Permission of Instructor only.
Independent Study is a semester-long agreement
developed between a student and a faculty member
to discuss ongoing work, a particular project, or
a course of study.
This agreement, including frequency of meetings... |
| ATEK350 | Revelators, Akousmatikoi - Sound in Art | Revelators, Akousmatikoi - Sound in Art, Music, and Ritual is an Art and Technology course focused on artists' use of sound in the creation of performance, recording, and immersive environments. Additionally, the course examines the history and theor... |
| ATEK351 | Hacktivsm/Rebellion as Art | A course in discussing and developing artistic ideas and projects in relation to Hacktivism and exploring Rebellion as a framework for art. This class will discuss optimistic futuring, imagining creative solutions for the world's problems using art,... |
| ATEK399 | Independent Study | Permission of Instructor only.
Independent Study is a semester-long agreement
developed between a student and a faculty member
to discuss ongoing work, a particular project, or
a course of study.
This agreement, including frequency of meetings... |
| ATEK435 | Algorithmic Practices I | There is a long history of algorithmic processes
in art. We will approach our study through the
history of Fluxus and conceptual art, as well as
trace the lineage of generative art methods. In
addition, there will be a focus on using rules,
chance, s... |
| ATEK439 | Pandaemonium Arch., Machine Learning | Pandaemonium Architecture was introduced in the 1958 Mechanisation of Thought Processes symposium as an early pattern recognition model for AI. Named after the demon-inhabited city in Milton's Paradise Lost, the Pandaemonium Architecture assemblage e... |
| ATEK441 | Tulip Hysteria Coordinating | At the peak of the Dutch Tulip mania of 1637, a
single bulb cost more than 10 times the yearly
wages of a skilled artisan; in Extraordinary
Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds,
Charles Mackay writes that 12 acres of land were
offered in excha... |
| ATEK499 | Independent Study | Permission of Instructor only.
Independent Study is a semester-long agreement
developed between a student and a faculty member
to discuss ongoing work, a particular project, or
a course of study.
This agreement, including frequency of meetings... |
| ATEK510 | Art & Technology Studio I | This is a required class for the Art and Technology MFA1 students. The goal of this class is to design, construct and install, by the end of the semester, a first semester Art and Technology project using certain creative, technical and theoretical f... |
| ATEK511 | Art & Technology Studio II | This is a required class for the Art and Technology MFA1 students. Through individual meetings, the faculty will address each student's research, conceptualization, prototyping, current digital technologies and collaborative production methods leadin... |
| ATEK520 | Conversations on Tech/Culture | This class is required for all MFA1 Art and Technology students. This class is an advanced visiting artist seminar focusing on topics in cross-disciplinary practice, history and theory with in-depth analysis and discussion of critical issues inherent... |
| ATEK530 | Networked Studio & Critique | The Networked Studio & Critique is required of all MFA1 Art and Technology students. This class introduces the student to an array of studio and technical practices and research strategies that will be useful throughout a professional artist's career... |
| ATEK531 | ATEK Research & Practice | This is a required class for the Integrated Media MFA1 students. In this class we will review the use of technology as a means for creating and understanding multidisciplinary art practices in the 21st Century. Through the use of interactive lectures... |
| ATEK599 | Independent Study | Permission of Instructor only.
Independent Study is a semester-long agreement
developed between a student and a faculty member
to discuss ongoing work, a particular project, or
a course of study.
This agreement, including frequency of meetings... |
| ATEK620 | Technology, Culture & Critique | This is a required class for the Art and Technology MFA2 students. Studio/Critique is framed by an experimental, interdisciplinary and non-traditional approach to art-making while employing various combinations of digital and electronic media (sound... |
| ATEK635 | Algorithmic Practices I | There is a long history of algorithmic processes
in art. We will approach our study through the
history of Fluxus and conceptual art, as well as
trace the lineage of generative art methods. In
addition, there will be a focus on using rules,
chance, s... |
| ATEK639 | Pandaemonium Arch., Machine Learning | Pandaemonium Architecture was introduced in the 1958 Mechanisation of Thought Processes symposium as an early pattern recognition model for AI. Named after the demon-inhabited city in Milton's Paradise Lost, the Pandaemonium Architecture assemblage e... |
| ATEK640 | Creative Research | This is a required class for the Art and Technology MFA2 students. Creative Research combines the student's studio practice with advanced creative research and technical practices. This course offers space and concentrated time to develop a wide arra... |
| ATEK641 | Tulip Hysteria Coordinating | At the peak of the Dutch Tulip mania of 1637, a
single bulb cost more than 10 times the yearly
wages of a skilled artisan; in Extraordinary
Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds,
Charles Mackay writes that 12 acres of land were
offered in excha... |
| ATEK650 | Revelators, Akousmatikoi - Sound in Art | Revelators, Akousmatikoi - Sound in Art, Music, and Ritual is an Art and Technology course focused on artists' use of sound in the creation of performance, recording, and immersive environments. Additionally, the course examines the history and theor... |
| ATEK651 | Hacktivsm/Rebellion as Art | A course in discussing and developing artistic ideas and projects in relation to Hacktivism and exploring Rebellion as a framework for art. This class will discuss optimistic futuring, imagining creative solutions for the world's problems using art,... |
| ATEK699 | Independent Study | Permission of Instructor only.
Independent Study is a semester-long agreement
developed between a student and a faculty member
to discuss ongoing work, a particular project, or
a course of study.
This agreement, including frequency of meetings... |
| ATEK700 | MFA Art & Technology Practicum Workshop | In this practicum, students will engage in the
production of a project or series of projects.
Projects are open-ended but are intended to
intersect with both the students' interests and/or
ongoing coursework.
Attendance at all sessions is required. |
| ATEK799 | Independent Study | Permission of Instructor only.
Independent Study is a semester-long agreement
developed between a student and a faculty member
to discuss ongoing work, a particular project, or
a course of study.
This agreement, including frequency of meetings... |